It’s personal
Most of you have seen me say over and over that linkspam isn’t personal. That the spammers don’t target people specifically to receive their spam.
I still hold to that standpoint.
But it becomes personal when they do linkspam joejobs to people they “know”. Such as when Eugene Blagodarny used my other domain as the e-mail address when he spammed hundreds of guestbooks with his filthy dyndns subdomains. Filthy enough the guestbook owners justifiably got angry with me, because they thought I was the spammer.
That’s when it’s personal.
He misused my identity with the intention of getting third parties angry with me.
August 20th, 2005 at 8:51 am
There also comes a time when you can no longer excuse the ignorance of website users when they do fall for joejobs.
In an ideal world, they’d see the warnings you’ve got. But for some reason (understanding it is beyond me) they blink right past those and blast away with their flames.
I think the best thing you can do is *not* to take that personally.
August 20th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
You should be proud of that joejob - it’s the sign how much the spammer is pissed. You’re doing a right job here and they are loosing money on new domains and hosting and it turns into the dust if the search engines set PR=0, hosting is kicking them and their name is mixed with shit (with other spammers). Good work!
August 27th, 2005 at 7:02 am
Hi, Spamhuntress…in my experience, the larger spam projects are personal. Personal in the sense that they do target individuals and exercise a selection process in who they spam as to sites discovered where (how they locate a website from where based upon what).
Not so much “personal” as it represents someone who actually knows someone else (and decides to let spamming commence based upon that type of ‘personal’ as in an actual relationship gone bad or even bad from the beginning), but “personal” in the sense that spammers appear to select users and their sites by following user links/references based upon starting points of a selective type: conservatives are spammed by the porno/gambling crud and similar.
Other issue: what is a “joejob”?
June 30th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
‘what is a “joejob”?’
I think it means to get revenge on somebody - usually a company - by sending spam in their name. The company will receive complaints from lots of angry people and ofcourse do their best to explain. But if the number of complaints is large enough they will never have the time to catch up and their reputation will be ruined. In the worst case the site will be taken down.
If I remember it right the word “joe job” originates from the domain it was first targeted at.