Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

The last week or two I’ve had a relative flood of trackback spam left on my blog. They usually pretend to be from a website about a Saskatchewan topic, and copy some or all of my original content to make up theirs. I have to remove from 1 to 10 a day, which is pretty annoying considering it should be an easy thing for Spam Karma 2 to filter out. In past months I tend to get at most 3 a week that make it through as false-negative-detection comments.

Another trick I stumbled across by accident. I tend to leave a lot of tabs open, dealing with the content later when I have more time. One tab turned into a spam webpage when I re-loaded it. Curious what had happened to the original page, I opened my bookmarks (I’d bookmarked my set of tabs last week in Firefox), and traced it to a list of “truisms” about how men and women interact. It looks like the site was set up to get promoted on social media sites like Digg, and once it had attained a lot of PageRank clout in Google, it was flipped to a list of links to offensive automobile ads.

The Wingnutterer also lead me over to BA, where the blogger there was threatened with death in an extortion spam scam. That “killer spam” is not to be taken seriously, although you can send it on to Phonebusters if you live in Canada, or the widely-not-very-respected DHS NIPC. Neither organization will dispatch an officer to the far corner of the earth with the illegal and offensive spam (Are there any other kinds?) came from, in order to deliver a boot to the head.