I <3 Spammers
This morning, my entire Media Wiki installation was repurposed as a link farm by some spambots. As a result, I had to revert all the changes, protect all the current entires and forbid edits from anonymous users from now on. Some of the links that were added by the spammers were made to be invisible to avoid detection by the sysop (me). Google actually penalizes sites that attempt to hoodwink an increased Pagerank score these days. So, why do spammers continue this exercise in futility? Argh….
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How sad…
I get spam every day…
In 10 minutes, i receive 3 emails saying that i’ve won $1,000,000 (or more ;)) everyday.
It doesn’t make sense to me of how these spammers think of people as totally dumb intelligent humans… I don’t want no pharmacies or forever living etc. or viagra or whatever else they’re advertising. I just don’t understand them…
I much hate spammers.
The best solution to getting all the spammers (yes, they are automatic) is to put an invisible link to some E-Mail of yours where you could get their IP address etc. or simply by going to a link where blocking page is. both proxy IP and forwards should be totally blocked from accessing the site(-s).
Spam bots work as spiders, taking both E-Mail addresses and URIs usually :)
So I guess that putting an invisible link in a comment in your HTML code would help quiet a lot. Most of the bots use regex patterns to find out these things.
I will do that on my next project ;)
Suckers :D