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Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Monday, February 23, 2015

The Sound of Spam

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More referral spam from Russia and the Netherlands cluttered my Blogger stats in Fevruary. Adding to the mess is the loud blast of spam from...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Spam for Christmas

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It seems that the dark elves responsible for pumping out unwanted spam of all kinds have the Christmas spirit of giving right now. Unfortuna...

SEO Spam or Fear the Penguin

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One of the most irritating con jobs on the Net is selling links to people desperate to get traffic to their websites. This is part of what i...
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Thursday, October 02, 2014

Return of the Russian Spam

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A familiar pattern of false referrals has shown up in my September 2014 Blogger statistics making me wish there was a way to exile them to S...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Russian Spam Invasion

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Things have been relatively quiet on the referral spam front for awhile, but the last month or so has seen an uptick in my Blogger stats. Mo...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Blog Comment Spam Researched

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Over at Imperva, an online security firm, they have put up a fascinating Acrobat document showing how spam comments are made with automated ...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Chatty Spam

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A wave of referral spam recently hit my Blogger stats that looked like it might be real referrals, but as you have probably guessed from the...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Just What I Wanted: More Spam

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While the blog hasn’t been hammered with referral spam recently, there have been a few drive byes. Also in the mix was an attempt at comment...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

A Multicourse Meal of Spam

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Though Google and Microsoft have made targeting spammers world wide a priority the last couple of years, the spam still keeps coming. That’s...

Iconic Spam

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Remember when making icons for apps was all the rage? You don’t?! Well, a flood of referral spam to my Blogger site has filled me with nosta...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Forget Mystery Meat, How About Mystery Spam?

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Just in time for the end of the year, I found a new referral spam in my Blogger statistics. http: // semalt . com / competitors_review . php...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Analysis? Selling Links for Money Spam

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Either I’m beginning to become a connoisseur of referral spam or I’m just bored with the usual offerings. Today brought something slightly d...
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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Salary Comparison and Bitcoin Spam

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With a sudden stop to the flood of Russian blog spam, I’d been feeling a little lonely this holiday season. But hey, Cyber Monday brought me...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Comments and Spam

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It truly feels like a Monday, complete with the first significant snow of the season. In the wee hours of the morning here, a comment came i...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Strange Influx of Russian Spam, Part 3

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Given how much I’ve already documented the new wave of Russian referral spam showing up on Blogger, I’m simply listing the new links as they...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Strange Influx of Russian Spam, Part 2

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Another day brought in another round of the odd referral spam to my Blogger statistics. Following the same pattern as the first batch , thin...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Strange Influx of Russian Spam

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November has brought cold winds with it and a flood of Russian spam on the 3rd. The false referrals on my Blogger stats lead to a  baffling ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Again With the Spam

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While there hasn’t been a lot of new spam hitting this blog (been a lot of vampirestats lately), there has been one showing up under two dif...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Spam from Google?!

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Just a short report this time around on a strange referral spam that showed up briefly on my Blogger statistics. This time it was http: // d...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Secret Spam

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Everybody loves a secret, or so it is said. So it is no surprise that old marketing gimmick of using “secret” somewhere in the pitch showed ...
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