Mailing List Archive: the nerve! wiki spammer

the nerve! wiki spammer

Mar 2, 2004, 11:51 AM

Post #1 of 3 (615 views)

I've just cleaned up a "search engine optimization" web spammer's attempts
to use the SpamAssassin Wiki to gain PageRank. The irony of attempting
to use an anti-spam Wiki, to spam, should not be overlooked ;)

The spammer came from 61.17.115.6 --

: jm 1008...; whois 61.17.115.0
% [whois.apnic.net node-1]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html

inetnum: 61.17.115.0 - 61.17.115.255
netname: Sikkanet
country: IN
descr: Sikka Net
descr: ISP, Lucknow
admin-c: BR31-AP
tech-c: BR31-AP
status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
changed: murali@ddsl.net 20040121
mnt-by: MAINT-IN-DISHNET
source: APNIC

One of their spamvertized URLs was for http://www.websitedesigning promotion.com/
, an "SEO" company based in India, with mostly nonexistent
contact info apart from a phone number in the south-east --

Wdp
wdp (nikhil26@sancharnet.in)
india
india
null,110011
IN
Tel. +91.4564364

It was easy enough to spot via RecentChanges. If anyone else wants
to help out, please feel free to bookmark that page and revert any
further spammer mods; your help would be appreciated.

--j.

RE: the nerve! wiki spammer [ In reply to ]

Matt.Yackley at perkinswill

Mar 2, 2004, 12:12 PM

Post #2 of 3 (608 views)

Permalink

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jm@jmason.org [mailto:jm@jmason.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:51 PM
> To: SpamAssassin-users@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: the nerve! wiki spammer
>
> I've just cleaned up a "search engine optimization" web
> spammer's attempts
> to use the SpamAssassin Wiki to gain PageRank. The irony of
> attempting
> to use an anti-spam Wiki, to spam, should not be overlooked ;)
>
SNIP
>
> It was easy enough to spot via RecentChanges. If anyone else wants
> to help out, please feel free to bookmark that page and revert any
> further spammer mods; your help would be appreciated.
>
> --j.
>

Hey Mr. Santerre, you should look through the diffs on the wiki, looks
like some good BigEvil fodder if they aren't already listed! :)

-matt

RE: the nerve! wiki spammer [ In reply to ]

csanterre at MerchantsOverseas

Mar 3, 2004, 9:50 AM

Post #3 of 3 (612 views)

Permalink

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yackley, Matt [mailto:Matt.Yackley@perkinswill.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:13 PM
> To: SpamAssassin-users@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: RE: the nerve! wiki spammer
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jm@jmason.org [mailto:jm@jmason.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:51 PM
> > To: SpamAssassin-users@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: the nerve! wiki spammer
> >
> > I've just cleaned up a "search engine optimization" web
> > spammer's attempts
> > to use the SpamAssassin Wiki to gain PageRank. The irony of
> > attempting
> > to use an anti-spam Wiki, to spam, should not be overlooked ;)
> >
> SNIP
> >
> > It was easy enough to spot via RecentChanges. If anyone else wants
> > to help out, please feel free to bookmark that page and revert any
> > further spammer mods; your help would be appreciated.
> >
> > --j.
> >
>
> Hey Mr. Santerre, you should look through the diffs on the wiki, looks
> like some good BigEvil fodder if they aren't already listed! :)
>
> -matt
>

Yup, I had just started to do that. What a blatant and foolish attempt!!
They earn a nice place in Bigevil. If anyone finds more, please send me.
Tough to monitor all the stuff. Nice find JM!!

--Chris