Comment Spam in the E-mail

The experiment with removing bot checks from commenting continues and so does the spam in my email account. Always posing as an anonymous commenter, it only shows up in my Gmail account but not in Blogger. So at least some of the filters are working. That’s the only silver lining since I have to check each email out.

Once again it is time to fire up the virtual machine with Ubuntu on it to do some investigating. Here are some examples and where the links lead to:

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The first link is embedded in xaikalitag and is ww2 . wikaswieier . com which throws up an error message. The secong link gets the same result.

The third time is the charm and we get to see a fake search engine made to mine money from click referrals.

Next up is a link to suspended account.

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Link shorteners are becoming the scourge of the Internet, in my opinion. They are fertile ground for spammers, hackers, and information thieves.

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The only thing the underlined embedded link, which is actually http: // my . qlp . be / gVw, leads to is the home page of the link shortening service YOURLS. The actual target no longer exists, so it is another zombie and it looks like it is from the same source as the previous one since there is a photography theme involved.

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What, again?

Next!

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Wow, the guy’s blog is the entire web! Who knew?

The link is really http: // balochkarwan . com / index . php?do = / profile-62875 / info / which leads to:

Looks legitimate, right? However, it only exists to get you to www . harrywatches . com to sell fake Rolex watches:

The profile was made this month, so this is fresh spam.

So what else lurks in my inbox?

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Oh the irony of being spammed on a post about spam. Bots are not discriminating in the least, are they? Or are they?

Initially the link takes us to another profile put up only to spread links, this time at a car enthusiast site. Once again, this was put up recently so it is fresh. But it is the link that is interesting for it isn’t in English and leads to:

More Polish based SEO spam! So the bot wasn’t completely off target.

It has been awhile since I’ve seen a “wall of text” approach to spam, after all we are in a short attention span society that is barely literate these days. So the following effort amused me.

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Rebel Mouse is a site where users can lash together their social media accounts into one place. It looks like the perfect place to put up get rich quick schemes and spam.

After correcting the links the first one leads to a supposed review of a get rich quick scheme that just happens to involve you spending money. Forty seven dollars U.S. to be exact. Clicking on the “visit official site” button takes you to a fairly low quality video with lots of hand gesturing.

The second link has something to sell too, the Fat Loss Factor. It also masquerades as a review. Clickhop bank is used to go to the links on it, so making money off of clicks is involved too. Wait a second, that looks familiar…

Yep, Dr. Charles is at it again. Not a zombie, this spammer reminds me more of a killer from a slasher movie that keeps popping up over and over again. I hope those purchasers are fictional, but I’m very afraid there is a high possibility they are real.

I’m no longer laughing.

Finally, the last one in the inbox

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So what’s under the pound key? http: // 23hq . com / ruddycoward934 / story / 12396573 is another recently made account at a social site. Sadly, it is an epic fail at spamming due to no links being put up!

It appears filler text was never replaced with what was going to be used, so no actually spamming resulted. This one is dead on arrival.

That’s it for today and I doubt I’ll do another post on this kind of comment spam. My intention was to give an overview of what’s hitting Blogger owner mailboxes at the moment and why security measures need to be in place on blogs.