[geeklog-spam] Bad Behavior and spammers

[Michael Brusletten]

Yeah I wish there was a proper Google address to report to as well.  All
they have is the abuse at google.com  They do have an onlie form that you can
use for search results spam at http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
or online reporting of google pages spam at
http://www.google.com/support/pages/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse_spam&extra.IssueType=abuse_spam

You are right though, if you try to report to the abuse email at google, it
really doesn't go anywheres.

Michael Brusletten wrote:

>>Funny you should ask.  Have you not seen the spam postings about the
casino
>>spam in BB2?
>
>Nope. BB2 does not display the content of the posts by default. I assume
>there's a template variable for that, but it's not used normally.

Your correct on a small change that would allow you to see this info.  Have
a look at this thread
http://www.gllabs.org/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=6723 over on GLLabs and
download the Entry.zip file to make the changes.  Then you will be able to
start actually seeing the content that these spammers are trying to post to
the site.  The info is already there in the database, you just have to make
a template file change.

>>Reason I
>>ask is because the Casino-on-net owners are asking me to get as many site
>>owners together to send proof that it is more widespread than just my
>>domain.  They are attempting to shut down the rogue affiliate that is
>>damaging their image.

>Too bad. I thought you were trying to alert Google Groups. I get lots of
>porn and pills spam with Google Groups URLs. Last time I checked, I
>couldn't even find a proper abuse address to contact there ...

For now...can you make the change and then send me a few entry posts to my
admin email.  Then I can forward that off to the proper place.  Then
hopefully geeklog.net will be removed from any further postings.  You may
want to do this to other sites as well that you have control over.  Please
send seperate emails for each site involved.  This goes for anyone else that
want to stop these spammers.  BTW, if your wondering, its the same spam gang
doing the google pages spam.  So if you want off their lists, let me know.

I haven't really seen any postings in the last few days now on
spacequad.com.  Not even in the BB2 database.  Its really nice not having to
worry about disk space and bandwidth usage caused by spam.


Michael

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