Questions tagged [spam]

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, television advertising and file sharing network spam.

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What is the purpose of "gibberish" comments posted to my blog?

Fairly frequently, the contact form on my blog gets comments that look similar to this (each field represents a text box users can enter into the HTML form on the blog): Name: 'ceguvzori' Email: 'gwizwo@avbhdu.com' Website: 'QrSkUPWK' Comment:…
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Why is blog spam always written so badly?

Some spam messages fresh from my Wordpress filter: Asking questions are in fact pleasant thing if you are not understanding something totally, except this article gives good understanding yet. and Thanks for any other informative blog. Where…
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What is the point of gibberish spam

I fairly often happen across forums spammed with messages such as: Arugula (Eruca sativa) is an quarterly green, pretended or roquette. It's been Traditional times, overclever 20 flat has be useful to "foodie" movement.Before impediment 1990s,…
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How was my Yahoo email account used to send spams

My yahoo email account was sending spams at about 6:42pm EDT (the spams show 3:42pm PDT) yesterday. I realized it by receiving several "Failure Notice" emails for Yahoo was unable to deliver the spam messages to some of the intended addresses. As…
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How and why do people spam my website form?

In have a web form on my website, and someone keeps sending annoying spam through it. I know Captcha can block this, but why do people spam my site - what's their benefit? How do they access my web form? Is there any script? And how can I identify…
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Is there a spam storm?

I realize this is a bit off-topic, but don't know where else to go to ask... I've gotten an enormous amount of spam in the past 24 hours (hundreds), even after some relatively good spam filters. Virtually all of this stuff is hokey weight loss…
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Weird visitor from Samara ----forum.topic5982...908.darodar.com?

I have seen this question asked about a user from Samara,Russia, and when I sifted through all the other occurances,everything everyone else is experiencing matched my experience, except for one thing. The number of visits. In one week the visits to…
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There's a lot of spam, and hacked sites are often used to distribute it

Possible Duplicate: What are common/official methods of reporting spam/phishing/nasty-grams to organizations? My production application receives a lot of emails and I can easily detect spam from it. From that spam, I can parse the dangerous URLs…
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Spammers bypassing the reCaptcha

I'm using recaptcha on a very simple forum registration page. The script first of all checks if the recaptcha code is valid, then it process. As soon i did put the website live, it got lots of spam registrations (~30). I was very surprised that how…
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What are the point of these gibberish comments?

On this site there are comments such as: ÃÊÁ ¹67 Èìåíè Âîðîõîáîâà â Ìîñêâå (Ãîðîäñêîé äåïàðòàìåíò çäðàâîîõðàíåíèÿ) ïî ïðàâó íà -ñåãîäíÿøíèé äåíü ñ÷èòàåòñÿ êðóïíåéøèì âðà÷åáíûì çàâåäåíèåì ãîðîäà Ìîñêâû. Ïîìîùü â äèàãíîñòèêå, ëå÷åíèè (ïëàíîâîì ëèáî…
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random-string spam probe messages?

For years, we've been receiving messages through our contact form in the following format: name: vlsyekcz email: jjthiy@toaagq.com subject: BdsQiWYlYo body: 2BLgIr aixfhxcynapd,…
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Mail server (sendmail) sends spam to innocent people

I asked this same question in serverfault but realized that wasn't the right place, I apologize. Background Server OS: Ubuntu 10.04 Mailing Application: Sendmail Recently I asked about backscatter on a mail server running sendmail, Amazon noticed me…
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Dangers of one step email subscription

Recently, when I was subscribing to email newsletter on some website, I was surprised by not receiving confirmation email. Naturally I registered my mail alias to newsletter as well to verify that it was intended behavior. It was. And it leaves me…
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Block spam that looks like it is coming from actual humans, and not bots?

I work for an educational institution, and we are seeing entries from our admissions application that amount to spam. Currently I only have one honeypot applied to thwart the spam bots, but these entries looks like input from actual people. There is…
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Why is a very anonymous spammer exhorting me to "not forget about all my tasks"?

I just got spam that in its entirety said: "Hi, don't forget about all my tasks." It's in plain text; there is no hidden content. Fake sender with my domain name, using a name that I do not have in my previous collection of spam. (I save it all for…
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