Archive for the 'Fighting spam' Category

Spammer asked to pay US$ 6 million to Myspace!

In another blow to organized spamming networks, court has awarded US$ 4.8 million in damages and US$ 1.2 million in attorney fee to Myspace.
MySpace continues to wage a legal war on alleged spammers.
An arbitrator has ordered Scott Richter and Media Breakaway to pay the social networking giant $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in [...]

Spammers actively recruiting people to spam forums

A while back I had posted about the menace of targeted manual spamming, how this is becoming a larger issue than bot produced spamming.
For a while now I am coming across threads like these on Digital Point, where these spammers are recruiting people to spam forums. The worrying bit is, since they are only paying [...]

Hitting spammers, where it hurts the most!

What do you do when a spammer comes to your forum and posts spam?
Most likely you would go ahead and ban that spammer’s id and delete the post/thread. However it is only time before the spammer comes back, with another user id and spams your forum again!
While you can go ahead and ban that spammer’s [...]

Targeted forum spamming

Lately I have been observing a steady increase in targeted forum spamming; my travel forum is being spammed by people who belong to the travel niche!
On one had it means my forum is gaining popularity, on the other hand dealing with this type of spamming has become time consuming. This is due to the fact [...]