Porn spammer revving up
For those of you who’ve been around long enough to remember the beastiality trackback spamrun, which STILL points to my blog, and I’m getting sick of all the people looking for that kind of porn, BTW, it tops my search statistics by a good margin…
Anyway, that spammer seems to have really revved up his campaigns lately. No doubt concentrating on those blogs that haven’t been regularly cleaned.
I’ve kept up with the Danish people, getting them to 404 several subdomains, but the spammer is branching out to other free service providers. What can we do to make his business a little less profitable? There’s unfortunately obviously a market for this stuff, so the only thing we can do is make it more difficult at this point, I fear.
Examples of heavily trackback spammed pages:
Kevin (edit: has cleaned his page)
Siva
Those of you who have a similar problem, check out my trackback block post.
April 13th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
One thing you could do when you get a hit from a search for beastiality is pop up a nasty note or redirect to the FBI homepage for a nice scare. I know its illegal in at least several states in the US. I suspect there are similar laws in other countries.
Because I purposely post spammy stuff on my blog I get a lot of nasty stuff like that. Being on blogspot I don’t have the control to setup something like that myself.
April 14th, 2005 at 4:04 am
Thanks for the suggestion. I think I managed to do just that. First a javascript pop-up (which doesn’t work in WP unless I do that iframe hack) and then a redirect to fbi.gov after 30 seconds…
Wish I could see the faces of the porn searchers. I guess, FBI might check out my blog if they notice the referrer, but I guess the post explains things satisfactorily enough for my end to be covered, at least.
April 14th, 2005 at 4:15 am
I was just thinking about this. I could probably accomplish the same thing with javascript on my blog, before I was thinking server side stuff. You should see the nasty stuff Manni does to caught spammers when they return to our wiki. I accidently got caught by it once, it was quite effective. It opens browser windows as fast as it can and loudly plays “I am looking at gay porn” over and over.
While thinking about it I also realized it should have some check for word spam. I often get search referrers for stuff like “casino on line spam”, you wouldn’t want to redirect legitimate readers.
I too would love to see the faces of the illegal porn searchers when they land at the FBI site. That would be a Kodak moment.
April 14th, 2005 at 4:25 am
The only search requests I get for that post are for the text the spammer used. I do get a lot of visits from people clicking through from spam as well. But I can’t remember any legitimate visits to that post apart from my regular visitors and bloggers.
April 14th, 2005 at 10:09 am
Think I’ll have to e-mail Manni and ask for his code. Doubt I’ll do exactly that, but just having the code would be fun.
And Joe, for javascript, just have a look at a spam site. Enough code for a lot of shenanigans right there…