Stories tagged "spammers"

Comment spammer trying their best to post their spam but Akismet is whacking them good.

Caught this IP trying to register, Captcha foiled them and there were asp.net viewstate errors, which is indicative of an automated bot.

Caught the bot trying to get in but was foiled by Captcha, repeated attempts.

I saw this one (Static DSL IP) trying to inject spam into a comment dialog this morning. Project Honeypot has them listed for spam and dictionary attacks. There are quite a few other malicous IP's in the same block.

The IP 202.75.35.210 tried accessing the admin area of one of our Wiki's, upon looking up the IP I found a plethora of spamming activities by this IP and IP range.

This is the second comment spammer / email spam harvester IP address I have seen this month from 198.54.202.x block (previous listing for 198.54.202.210). Seems this netblock is chock full of spamming activities.

"Spammers really do lie more often under oath than other parties in court (surprise). Judges and prosecutors could promote respect for the law by cracking down on it, and maybe make a dent in spam in the process."

This is a strange one indeed. I found several Korean IP's attempting to inject spam into several of our wiki's and they are spamming an Italian domain (ulisse-bici.org) with l333tbi1t.txt in the URL.

A federal judge has ordered an Arizona couple to pay more than US$236 million for sending millions of spam messages to a small Iowa ISP (Internet service provider).

Caught the IP 64.27.5.162 trying to hit admin pages to spam a site. Looked up the IP address (64.27.5.162) it is listed many times as a comment spammer. I have had many problems with IP addresses under the control of Hollywood Interactive in California.