This is actually a (slightly updated) repost of some observations I originally posted on the geeklog-spam mailing list:

This somewhat baffled me. I came across quite a few entries in the geeklog.net logfiles that seemed to indicate that someone was referrer spamming for Geeklog sites: read more

Probably the most notorious spammers these days are two brothers from Bulgaria, therefore nicknamed The Bulgarians.

They started spamming geeklog.net some time last year, mostly with poker spam, so I referred to them as "The Poker Spammer" for some time. Eventually, I came across Ann Elisabeth's observations which made it clear what we're dealing with.

For a long time, the most effective way to block these spammers was to filter for "pinappleproxy". However, it seems they have now figured out how to suppress that characteristic, so we now have to resort to other means.

Ann Elisabeth also keeps track of the latest domains used by the Bulgarians, which you can use to update your spam filters.

Does the world really need Yet Another Spam Blog? Well, probably not. However, I found myself in need for a place to post about spam on websites. I've tried a few other places before, but none were really appropriate.

So what is this site about? It's a place where I collect information about spam I encounter on the various websites I administer. So email spam is not something you'll usually see here (unless there's a connection to spam we also see on websites). read more