Monday, October 6, 2008
iijiivei - "My Question about" Message = Spam
After searching on Google, it seems a large number of blogs and forums were spammed with an automated post from iijiivei. The subject was "My Question about," and the post asked "How i may contact admin this site? I have a question."
My guess is that it's a bot trying to trick people into posting working email addresses, to cull and then sell to spammers. DO NOT give your email address out to iijiivei. In general, if you publicly post an email address, you should always post it as an image and try to obscure it a little, so most bots can't read it. Here's an example of how I obscured my email address in an image.
A human can read it just fine, but it may prove more difficult for most common bots to cull. If you're at higher risk of being spammed, you can then go even further with obscuring the email address within the graphic, to stop all but the best OCR programs out there.
Cross-posted on my LiveJournal.
My guess is that it's a bot trying to trick people into posting working email addresses, to cull and then sell to spammers. DO NOT give your email address out to iijiivei. In general, if you publicly post an email address, you should always post it as an image and try to obscure it a little, so most bots can't read it. Here's an example of how I obscured my email address in an image.
A human can read it just fine, but it may prove more difficult for most common bots to cull. If you're at higher risk of being spammed, you can then go even further with obscuring the email address within the graphic, to stop all but the best OCR programs out there.
Cross-posted on my LiveJournal.
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