Swedish spammer
This is rather unusual. Here’s a Swedish spammer.
He referrer spammed my log (munged slightly):
193.109.173.79 - - [09/Aug/2005:02:12:36 -0500] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 26146 “h*tp://www.webbshop.co.uk” “IE 5.0″
The domain has this owner:
Peter Sandgren
Besökaregränd 2E
Ystad
Ystad
27142
SE
Registered on: 01-Aug-2005
The address doesn’t actually exist in Ystad.
The IP address puts him on a broadband connection in Skåne in Sweden: Teleservice Bredband Skane AB
Payoffs:
Tradedoubler - 882536
A refresh redirect to a Swedish dating site that belongs to the same guy?
Google Adsense: pub-9166886050951199
A cafepress site, provokat
Update October 7: He had a different IP number when he commented here than the spam was entered from.
Yep, two hits from the same guy here, too. Same IP address, same faked referrer, faked user agents “IE 5.0″ and “IE 5.1″.
You are wrong. The address _does_ exist in Ystad.
If You “try this”:http://www.hitta.se/SearchMixed.aspx?SearchType=4&UCSB%3aWflWhite=1a1b&UCSB%3aWflPink=4a&UCSB%3aTextBoxWho=Peter+Sandgren&UCSB%3aTextBoxWhere=ystad search (i hope Your blog recognises this as an URL) You can clearly see the address Your self. Both Garmin’s MapSource and Michelin MapSonic has the address and Hitta’s “show as map”:http://www.hitta.se/SearchWhiteMap.aspx?SearchType=4&UCSB%3aWflWhite=1a1b&UCSB%3aWflPink=4a&UCSB%3aTextBoxWho=Peter+Sandgren&UCSB%3aTextBoxWhere=ystad does display the point of the address.
So it would seem. So the guy really does exist. And is he also the spammer?
Well, i wouldn´t say i was spamming in any way, i was only visiting a set of public pages of website statistics. It was never violating any laws or anything. I´m only an unemployed old fart with a family to support.
You WERE spamming. The laws are ambiguous when it comes to this form of spamming. Remember how long it took for the laws to catch up when it came to e-mail spamming? It’s wrong, wrong, wrong. That there are no laws that specifically address referrer spamming isn’t even relevant. What you are doing is wrong.
So tell me, have you stopped spamming now?
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Hi there Peter,
You’ve defended you actions by saying that you were not violating any laws, and Ann-Elisabetgh has pointed out that laws are slow to catch up. You can be sure that they will though.
You waste the time of other website owners, who like you, have families to support. Your spam visits must be filtered out if their real visitors are to be analysed, and understood. Your visits reduce the capacity of their servers, and which they must pay for, and use up their bandwidth, which they must pay for.
So your selfish act reduces the viability of other old farts livelyhoods.
Your visits alone are not enough to cause a significant hit to any one site, but the combined effect of your actions on all sites results in lost days of productivity.
If you consider too, that you are not the only person doing this, it will be obvious that many days are lost in filtering out spam - days that could otherwise be spent productively - this is why you actions will, eventually, be enshrined in law as illegal.
Once you know this, to continue in your actions is, morally wrong, and you have to decide if you want to support your family through immoral means.
I concede that you may find this an unwanted necessity, but ultimately, you are creating the world that they will inherit through the way you live your life.
So will you stop?
Peter,
Read the piece I wrote in
The Guardian newspaper about a UK referrer spammer. When I interviewed him, Mikie Rods was also unemployed with a family to support. He told me that he would not referrer spam again. Will you?
Lame defense of a spammer
Hmm, I assume the 119 requests over the course of 4 minutes he sent to our website on September 5th were just a nice way of saying “hello” then? (…) Mr. Sandgren, no matter how you put it - you are a dirty spammer.
As we say in the States… “Dude, knock it off!” I agree with Rich Boakes post… I found this site looking for ways to combat the constant work my server must do to adress what turns out to be bogus requests from spambots and the like. Leave the world alone would ya??? Otherwise, have a nice day :~)
Seems like Spamming has become something more hated by the World than Fraud that is Scamming.
Well we have also been acussed of Spamming the Geeklog.net as well.
Seems like we were guilty according to dirk for trying to put our URL.
With great intent, we wanted the URL to make people understand how our “perpetual motion machine” (of cause you will say, it cant work of course) works.
Cause without the URL you can see any schmatics and making the idea useless (that is difficult to understand).
We agree we are at fault, since the web is his.