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[Spam] Meet The Bulgarians

Authored by: Dirk on Monday, April 11 2005 @ 01:28 pm EDT

Here's some more information, in the hope to make it somewhat clearer which sort of spam I was talking about above. Typically, a spamrun by the Bulgarians looks like this:

They send comment, trackback, and referer spam for up to 6 domains for about 24 hours. There's usually a pause then for a few hours before the next spamrun starts with a fresh set of domains.
Most of the time, the spam is for poker sites, but they also do drugs and finance spam (no porn, AFAIK).
Most of the time they use subdomains containing the keywords, like poker.example.com.
All the spam posts look pretty much the same and start with a phrase like "Please check some helpful info about ...", "You are invited to check out the sites in the field of ...", etc.
Comment posts are usually a huge list of keywords and links, while trackback spams (because of the nature of trackbacks) contain only one link.
Typically, the spamvertised sites, when called up in a browser, display a bogus message that makes you think the site has already been closed down. In fact, they usually only open the site after the spamrun has ended.

Those are the main characteristics. If you've been hit by them once, you'll recognize them immediately.

I don't have any insight on the sort of sites they usually hit, but it's not restricted to Geeklog sites: Similar reports can be found from users of Wordpress and Serendipity, to name just the ones I know about. A Google search for "poker spammer", "poker spam", or similar turns up a lot of reports and if you compare them with the characteristics listed above you'll see that it's the same source in almost every case. The Bulgarians (i.e. these two brothers) really seem to be the #1 source for this sort of spam.

bye, Dirk

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