February 09, 2005

New form of spamming

Part of running a blog is dealing with spam. I use MT-Blacklist to handle most of the headaches, but now I find a new variant. Referral spam.

One of the things that I enjoyed about checking my stats was finding a new website that had not only linked to me, but also sent a few people my way. Now spammers are trying to abuse this system to clog it up with crap. Such grand sites like:

  • poker-online.chat-nett.com
  • free-online-poker.yelucie.com
  • poker.psxtreme.com
  • casino.crescentarian.net

At least it's not porn. I banned the domains from my site altogether and found that they are all coming from the same IP -- 219.150.118.16. Feel free to use this information to help out your own site, if you wish.

Posted by Casper at February 9, 2005 12:35 AM
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