Revenge spam from Eugene Blagodarny
Eugene Blagodarny has been spamming guestbooks as me at least since August 4th.
I first got a few angry guestbook entries, but couldn’t figure it out. I knew I hadn’t spammed anyone, and I couldn’t find anything in Google to indicate someone had spamvertized my site (revenge spam).
Turns out it’s worse. I finally found a sample, and used the wording to find other samples.
The wording is like this:
AnnElisabeth
Great site! Keep it alive!
And then there are some really vile URL’s entered in the website field. Disgusting deviate porn.
He’s targeted xtremguestbook in particular, and he’s really been laying it on thick. There are LOTS of entries in the spammed guestbooks. All of them have an e-mail address from my domain under the e-mail button. That e-mail address doesn’t work. The spammed webmasters probably think I’m the spammer, and since the e-mail address doesn’t work, they sign my guestbook instead.
I should probably enable the address for a while, to catch any e-mail regarding this.
Any ideas on what I should do? This is obviously hurting my reputation…
Updates:
I traced one of the dyndns sites to one of his domains. The whois is very sketchy (by design, of course), but the e-mail address is his. It’s one he’s used many times.
Admin Organization: NA
Admin Name: NA
Admin Address: NA
Admin City: NA
Admin Country: AFGHANISTAN
Admin Postal Code: 11111
Admin Phone Number: +91.226370256
Admin Email: domains@gals4all.com
He’s doing his usual PHPnuke spam runs as well, under his usual “optimized” names. The guestbook spam run is in addition to his usual spamming.
August 18th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
Activate that email account, see what kind of emails come in. It may not be as bad as you think. One would assume that people can figure out what’s going on after they’ve seen your site …
August 18th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
It had been going on for quite some time before I realized what was going on. And there’s nothing on the annelisabeth site that even hints that I’m hunting spammers, unless you go back a few months on the blog. And none of these irate guestbook owners have done that. So yes, this has been hurting me, until today when I put notices on the index page and the guestbook. Even so, it’s hurting me when people don’t check my site and just assume I’m the spammer. If I then get in touch with them for whatever reason, I’m already branded.
August 18th, 2005 at 6:06 pm
I made a google search, and it’s everywhere. Pure evil! Of course it is damaging in one sense and meant to be. Probably people figure it out if they visit you. And if they just send you email whotout checking first, they are probably not persons you should be concerned about anyway.
Strange, though, I thought spammers never actually cared about their ‘reputation’.
August 18th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
Spammers don’t care how slimy they are, they just don’t want anyone to publicize it.
August 18th, 2005 at 11:54 pm
Ah, sorry. I thought he was pointing to this site, not to your personal blog. That’s indeed sneaky.
September 2nd, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Eugene Blagodarny spams the SpamHuntress
Eugene Blagodarny spams the SpamHuntress
March 4th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Not with me it’s not…
…but if it continues you could always consider the legal angles of “defamation of character” or perhaps “impersonation with intent to defraud”.
May 24th, 2006 at 8:24 am
What is spam?
June 29th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
I should at least know by now you’re not a spammer. The EU Spam Symposium was interesting by the way.
September 7th, 2006 at 8:33 am
Im a little curious if you were able to find more information. Have they stopped? Were you able to do anything about it?
Only have been reading the blog for about 15 mins, I have found some ideas I am going to use to counter. Thanks,
CM
September 25th, 2006 at 2:43 am
Don’t cry about spam, its infected the world, live with it.