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Here's a URL that should be in everybody's spam filter: widecircles.com

Some idiot has been trying to (manually) spam for this site pretty much all of November. It doesn't faze him that his posts are deleted automatically. He registers new accounts, which are banned as soon as they start spamming - but he keeps on trying.

The spam posts themselves are coming from various IP addresses in India. He tries to spam our forums or tries to post comments, usually spouting marketing crap about how The social bookmarking will also improve your business by boosting your page rank. Yeah, sure.

Dear spammer, you're an idiot and on your website, you openly advocate spamming. Go away.

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[...] spam, from either cheap labour or dedicated individuals, is becoming a real nuisance. On the heels of that other twit, we are now seeing such spam coming from a small range of IP addresses: 202.69.40.1 - 202.69.40.15, belonging to Gerrys [...] [read more]
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Oh lookee. What a hopeless case ...

Authored by: Dirk on Wednesday, November 26 2008 @ 13:22 CET
... and on geeklog.net

And a few hours later, "Brianna" tried to post the exact same bullshit on geeklog.net (including the odd "... to join it.and really ..."). Of course, that attempt was rejected automatically.

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, November 27 2008 @ 08:00 CET
Social Bookmarking spam
Yep...verified. They have been busy little beavers. We got hit with an attempt but they did not get very far. I added them to the blacklists and also gave them a bad mark on Web of Trust located at www.mywot.com Have fun by rating other website.

Michael

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Ironmax

Authored by: ironmax on Friday, November 28 2008 @ 07:28 CET

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