Spammers Motivation?
The spammers are active again this morning. What I do not understand is: What reward do they get for spending the time to post such gibberish? I don’t open the links, so are they “farming” for e...
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Motivation is 99.9%money-
Having the same public email address for 15 years now, I get a ton of spam (between 300 and 1000 per day)- enough that when I used local spam software, it took my computer 10-15 minutes to download and filter all of it. Now I let Google filter the spam.
On one of my blogs, I get between 10 and 150 spam postings a day- every now and then I get one like this:
I let Akismet handle that-
Having the same public email address for 15 years now, I get a ton of spam (between 300 and 1000 per day)- enough that when I used local spam software, it took my computer 10-15 minutes to download and filter all of it. Now I let Google filter the spam.
On one of my blogs, I get between 10 and 150 spam postings a day- every now and then I get one like this:
The Spammer wrote:
{This|This particular|This kind of|This specific|That|The following|This unique|It|The|This approach|This valuable} week’s {calendar|diary|work schedule|appointments|schedule|date|appointment setting}, {April|04|Apr|The spring|May|August|The spring of|June|July|February|Spring} {11|Eleven|14|12|13|10|Twelve|9|Thirteen|Sixteen|Nine} {to|in order to|to be able to|for you to|to help|so that you can|that will|to help you|towards|to make sure you|to successfully} {17|Seventeen|18|19|Teen|Seventeen-year-old|Eighteen|Nineteen|16|20|15} {By|Through|Simply by|By simply|By means of|By way of|By just|As a result of|From|Just by|With} {Posted|Published|Submitted|Put up|Placed|Uploaded|Created|Released|Shared|Circulated|Issued}: {3|Three|Several|Three or more|A few|3 or more|About three|4|Various|A variety of|Many}:{25|Twenty five|Twenty-five|30|20|26|24|40|27|31|Twenty six} {PM|Pm hours|Evening|Pm}, {April|04|Apr|The spring|May|August|The spring of|June|July|February|Spring} {17|Seventeen|18|19|Teen|Seventeen-year-old|Eighteen|Nineteen|16|20|15}, {2013|The year 2013} {Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Mondy|The following thursday|The following friday|Friday|Monday|Tues|Saturday|Sunday}, {April|04|Apr|The spring|May|August|The spring of|June|July|February|Spring} {16|Sixteen|Of sixteen|07|04|06|15|18|14|12|17} Co-op {Condo|Condominium|Residence|Property|House|Apartment|Rental|Flat|Home|Dwelling|Unit} Expo {More than|A lot more than|Greater than|Over|In excess of|Above|Around|Much more than|Even more than|Well over|Beyond} {270|260|Two seventy}
I let Akismet handle that-
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