Spamhuntress

I’ve been getting quite a lot of spam from AOL the last few days. I counted 136 message0 - trackbacks. All about ringtones. Links pointing to AOL user homepages. Multiple users with names containing “ringtone”.

The pages themselves don’t work in Firefox, because of some junk before the html tag, but the search engines should gobble them up, because the browser receives the whole page, it just doesn’t display it.

I suspect a bait and switch to happen at a later date. Right now I can’t find a payoff.

But anyway, filter by proxy.aol.com, and watch out for real commenters among the catch.

An interesting fact is that the user agent is broken:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

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