Confusion Almost Referer Spam Tin Accept Unexpected Consequences
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
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As referer spam continues to hold upwards reported inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, nosotros come across occasional signs of confusion.
Some weblog owners, knowing how to role WhoIs lookups in addition to similar online utilities, to their advantage, are looking upwards the referer spam targets - in addition to are reporting the targets to their registrars in addition to hosts. What these weblog owners may non realise is that non all apparent "customers" of referer spam "services" may conduct maintain genuinely contracted to hold upwards featured inwards the services.
In Oct - Nov 2011, this weblog was featured inwards i moving ridge of referer spam.
Somewhere, buried deep inwards my comment moderation queue for this blog, may hold upwards or in addition to hence strange comments
When I saw i such comment, I idea that it was precisely or in addition to hence spammer, messing amongst me - every bit many create (which is why I moderate comments, aggressively). As to a greater extent than such remarks appeared, both hither in addition to inwards Blogger Help Forum, I realised that what I had idly expected, long ago, had genuinely come upwards to pass.
I've been using this blog, since I started it, every bit a weapon against spamming action inwards general. In Feb 2011, I started using it every bit a weapon against referer spam. I did both knowing good that if I was e'er seriously effective inwards my fight, the guys who I became effective against would eventually assault me.
In Oct 2011, I realised that my dream had larn true. I was honoured past times the providers of referer spam, every bit someone worthy of their attention. In spam fighter parlance, I was the victim of a "Joe Job".
Just every bit sure every bit I, personally, was a Joe Job victim, I know that other honest in addition to righteous weblog in addition to website owners are similarly beingness attacked past times referer spam, inwards other Joe Jobs. I know that I am non the alone fighter of spam, worthy of the attending of the spammers.
Once nosotros sympathise that non all blogs or websites featured inwards referer spam action may hold upwards actual intentional customers of referer spammers, nosotros conduct maintain to realise that unfocused reporting of blogs in addition to websites, mentioned inwards referer spam, volition genuinely play correct into the hands of the referer spammers.
What the referer spammers are doing, inwards their Joe Jobs, is likewise called a "Smurf Attack". The spammers are hoping that thousands of angry Blogger weblog owners volition study the blogs in addition to websites, featured inwards the spam, every bit spam customers. This volition crusade the immediate recipients of the Smurfing, the registrars in addition to Internet Service Providers, to discontinue service to the reported blogs in addition to websites. In 2011, amongst such reporting taken seriously, this weblog mightiness conduct maintain been damaged.
Hopefully, almost ISPs in addition to registrars know of Joe Jobs in addition to Smurf Attacks - in addition to know how to verify the nature of whatever private service beingness reported for spamming. However, that's merely a complication which tin conduct maintain other effects.
The bottom delineate is that anybody seeing the referer spam, inwards their Stats logs, has to sympathise that non all blogs in addition to websites should hold upwards reported for spamming. When you lot study all referer spam, indiscriminately, you lot are merely working for the spammers.
Please, don't function for the spammers. The existence of this weblog (and other, much to a greater extent than pregnant blogs in addition to websites) may depend upon your discretion.
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Some weblog owners, knowing how to role WhoIs lookups in addition to similar online utilities, to their advantage, are looking upwards the referer spam targets - in addition to are reporting the targets to their registrars in addition to hosts. What these weblog owners may non realise is that non all apparent "customers" of referer spam "services" may conduct maintain genuinely contracted to hold upwards featured inwards the services.
In Oct - Nov 2011, this weblog was featured inwards i moving ridge of referer spam.
Somewhere, buried deep inwards my comment moderation queue for this blog, may hold upwards or in addition to hence strange comments
Chuck, I clicked on a link inwards my Stats log, in addition to got this blog. Your weblog does non link to my weblog - in addition to hence why create my Stats displays link here?
When I saw i such comment, I idea that it was precisely or in addition to hence spammer, messing amongst me - every bit many create (which is why I moderate comments, aggressively). As to a greater extent than such remarks appeared, both hither in addition to inwards Blogger Help Forum, I realised that what I had idly expected, long ago, had genuinely come upwards to pass.
I've been using this blog, since I started it, every bit a weapon against spamming action inwards general. In Feb 2011, I started using it every bit a weapon against referer spam. I did both knowing good that if I was e'er seriously effective inwards my fight, the guys who I became effective against would eventually assault me.
In Oct 2011, I realised that my dream had larn true. I was honoured past times the providers of referer spam, every bit someone worthy of their attention. In spam fighter parlance, I was the victim of a "Joe Job".
Just every bit sure every bit I, personally, was a Joe Job victim, I know that other honest in addition to righteous weblog in addition to website owners are similarly beingness attacked past times referer spam, inwards other Joe Jobs. I know that I am non the alone fighter of spam, worthy of the attending of the spammers.
Once nosotros sympathise that non all blogs or websites featured inwards referer spam action may hold upwards actual intentional customers of referer spammers, nosotros conduct maintain to realise that unfocused reporting of blogs in addition to websites, mentioned inwards referer spam, volition genuinely play correct into the hands of the referer spammers.
What the referer spammers are doing, inwards their Joe Jobs, is likewise called a "Smurf Attack". The spammers are hoping that thousands of angry Blogger weblog owners volition study the blogs in addition to websites, featured inwards the spam, every bit spam customers. This volition crusade the immediate recipients of the Smurfing, the registrars in addition to Internet Service Providers, to discontinue service to the reported blogs in addition to websites. In 2011, amongst such reporting taken seriously, this weblog mightiness conduct maintain been damaged.
Hopefully, almost ISPs in addition to registrars know of Joe Jobs in addition to Smurf Attacks - in addition to know how to verify the nature of whatever private service beingness reported for spamming. However, that's merely a complication which tin conduct maintain other effects.
The bottom delineate is that anybody seeing the referer spam, inwards their Stats logs, has to sympathise that non all blogs in addition to websites should hold upwards reported for spamming. When you lot study all referer spam, indiscriminately, you lot are merely working for the spammers.
Please, don't function for the spammers. The existence of this weblog (and other, much to a greater extent than pregnant blogs in addition to websites) may depend upon your discretion.
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