Referal from a Forum

Nice twist on log spamming

[ukgimp]

Just been done :)

Referal from site X appearing to be from a thread in forum.

Visit site, registration required

Scan thread (id=22 in my case) to see lots of angry people who have registered also but with no link

The only trouble is though it is mainly webmasters who are sad enough to trawl their logs an therefore visit. They also know the score.

Different though

[Goober]

same thing with me.

UGH.

[Lord Majestic]

The only trouble is though it is mainly webmasters who are sad enough to trawl their logs an therefore visit.

Don't give them the impression that their tricks work ;)

[Rugles]

It worked on me. :-(

What a wild read, he has everybody pissed at him and then he locked the thread.

The most unfortunate part is I used my "good" email address for work. I suspect he is going to turn over all those addresses to some unsavory characters.

[Lord Majestic]

I suspect he is going to turn over all those addresses to some unsavory characters.

Pray he won't use it as part of useragent for his next crawl...

[Rugles]

Do a search on google and you can see that his log spamming is working perfectly.

[pmkpmk]

The most unfortunate part is I used my "good" email address for work.

Oh, you still have uncontaminated email addresses? Lucky you!

We can't make up new mail addresses fast enough before having them contaminated again. Even garbage-words ([e-mail]) get spam by dictionary attacks nowadays.

And there's only limited variations to a person's name, not to mention generics like "helpdesk" or "sales".

And business partners don't like constantly changing email addresses too.

Back to the thread: I see an increasing number of logspamming, but not yours so far.

Any idea how to get these guys easily out of the Webtrends statistics?

[edit]Actually I was wrong - it DID happen to me as well. Yesterday. For the first time.[/edit]

[edited by: pmkpmk at 3:17 pm (utc) on Aug. 12, 2004]

[Robino]

This has been going on for a long time. It obviously works.

There are ways to really get these people back if you use your imagination.

[bcolflesh]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Staffa]

ukgimp if the IP is from NO then there is more here :
[webmasterworld.com...]

Since then I had another one trying the same trick but can't find it back right now.

bcolflesh beat me to it. BTW that spammer has a fixed IP nr. He tried a few more times but banged his head on the castle gate

[Rugles]

I see refers from boards all the time, if it is open to the public I always want to know what they are saying about the site. So this time I only bothered to register because there was a hundred hits in 48 hours and it appeared to be from a web developer board.
So I was sooooooooo curious to see what web developers were saying about our site.

[trillianjedi]

Thanks for the heads-up Rugles - I missed bcolflesh's post of the same thing from last week.

Shame that it comes down to this really. There used to be a code of honour and respect amongst webmasters.

TJ

[pmkpmk]

I encounter an increasing number of log-spamming coming from porn-sites.

Do these guys still think webmasters are fat geeks with no real life?

[Rugles]

Excellent, he had 20 000 fake registrations yesterday. If whoever did that to him is a member here, GOOD WORK!

[trillianjedi]

I think he'll find himself a target from many people - members here or not.

You can't go poking internet savvy people in the ear with a big stick and not expect the odd reprisal.

Whilst I wouldn't condone anyone attacking another website in that way, frankly the guy was asking for it.

TJ