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New Spam Frontier: Referer Logs

Posted by timothy on from the die-spammers-die dept.

geoffsmith writes "Wired News is reporting that spammers are using referer logs as a cheap new way to spam small sites. Anyone running a website has probably already seen this phenomenon; I'm thinking of writing a script to remove these entries from my access_log by looking for hits that don't grab my images. (sorry lynx users!)"

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  1. eat my first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. which is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) getting your weblog spammed
    2) sex with a mare
    3) getting your weblog spammed for sites about sex with a mare.

  6. Question. by mindstrm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Suppose I have a form on my site to collect customer information.

    Could filling this form with obviously bogus information and advertising be considered theft of services, or fraud, or something else?

  7. spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SPAM sucks,
    SPAM isnt cool you stupid fuck
    the companies are only in it for the buck
    the trend will die out soon with any luck.

  8. Well... by devphil · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    ...personally, I was hoping that one of the victims of the Washington, D.C., sniping spree would turn out to be a major spammer. Guess they were all humans instead.

    --
    You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
  9. Re:Spam Lite by sidster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've noticed an increase on my yahoo! account.

    I used to get zero (honest zero!) spam on that
    account. The only mistake I think I made was to
    use that account in my purchases both at buy.com
    and outpost.com. So, I have those two sites under
    suspicion of selling my email address.

    My personal address though, I used to get about
    may be 3 or 4 spams a day. A tolorable amount.
    These were spams where I was in the To or Cc list
    as I filter emails where my email address isn't
    in those field into a spam folder which I browse
    through for valid emails from friends once a month
    or so.

    Then I noticed a big jump in amount of spam:
    10-15 spams a day!

    Keep in mind I have been using ordb.org for
    quite a while now.

    This increase in spam prompted me to start my own
    blacklist. I started keeping my spam and parsing
    source IP addresses. Originally I had about 900
    IPs listed. I didn't see a dramatic decrease in
    spam though. Though I did notice soon after using
    my blacklist that i got a few emails confirming my
    subscription to "so and so list" was.

    Next I noticed a huge flood of spam from
    azoogle.com servers. So they just got firewalled
    out! (a quick search on them also showed quite
    a few sites, including universities, that blocked
    out azoogle.com completely).

    Now, my blacklist is roughtly at 2200 IP addresses
    and I get about 5-8 spams a day. A fair decrease
    from the original 10-15 a day I would say. And
    every week i keep adding to my blacklist.

    Does anyone else have similar experiences?

    --
    --sidster
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