Socrates & Sophocles In Latest Spamming Trends

Avice — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:28:37 +0000

I received many spams lately. Some of this deliberate spammer has many artificial technique ie predefine message, questionnaire, using a famous name, one liner etc… And surprisingly all the spammer has a commons things, there is no hyperlinks in their comments post. So this make it a trends in spam evolution. Here is some of my findings.

Predefine post

What a joy, they come in pair.

Questionnaire

What Daniel’s meant by interesting is actually more prosaic than the real meaning. he was hammering my blog for 4 days long with the same repetitive comments. I’d to quickly blocked him via .htacess and submit his particular details to spam reporting services.

One Liner

This type of spamming is redundant in my blog. Almost 80% of it is from CHINA. And that is very suspicious as this might be a forge address by Russian black-hat. Notice the famous name (Socrates & Sophocles). Its very noble.

How to identify a SPAM posts?

From my dictionary.

If the comment is ambiguous its a spam.
Giving out fake email address. A quick telnet will do the job
Looking up IP address for mx1.hotmail.com.
The IP address for mx1.hotmail.com. is 65.54.245.8sending HELO
response: 220 bay0-mc9-f23.bay0.hotmail.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk e-mail to Microsoft’s computer network is prohibited. Other restrictions are found at http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations will result in use of equipment located in California and other states. Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:49:24 -0700 250 bay0-mc9-f23.bay0.hotmail.com (3.4.0.37) Hello [xx.xx.xx.xx]sending RCPT TO vanessyto@hotmail.comresponse: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Using the blog name for reference, as in my case the spammer used “Kaizeku Ban” as reference.
The author is using the same IP address with the target website. This is debatable, but still good points to check.

How to identify a spam website?

Most of spam websites register their domains under anonymous registrant. So be alert for this type of sites.

Protection against spam

Today’s email and blogging software (CMS) has standard a build in spam protections but it still not good enough as spammer is getting better and cunning at every turn. I think the best protections from spamming is for you to have a “white-list” of trusted network. As it will save you from writing endless filter. Just let the one you trust to contact you and let rest of the worlds in the waiting list.

At this time of writing there is 4 million search results for “stop spam” query on Google. This should make spam as an industry by itself. How many spam should we get in the next 10 years is all depend on how much profit it makes for spamming.

There wouldn’t be spam if there wasn’t money in spam.

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