Big Time Directory Spammers...

Who are your big time paid directory spammers?

djmusic something.whatever - No.1 long time spammer, he even sends email saying he is hurricane affected. Every directory he will keep sending different emails.

auto-rent. ro - Biggest Spammers ever, will keep submitting even if you delete. Just no stop for them and will even follow on to your network dirs and dirs of friends and just keep submitting for FREE!! Moreover they will not even select the right category.

List is just unlimited..................

 

I thought I was the only one to get mails from djmusic. Such an expert spammer

 

i removed that dj guy from some of my directories before because he was spamming

 

@ fear & discover: I even remember appox 1 year back a discussion was brought about him in this section. Wherein he mentioned that, I pay also. - LOL (I can't find that thread )

 

We dont get many spam submits from DJ ,but we get alot of russion domains especially that piece of crap auto site.

Unfortunatly theres only 2 ways to stop them...

1. Make them PAY the review fee first...

2. Ban the entire countries IP

#1 will never happen with phpld so option #2 is probably the best course of action to
take as not many russion sites have $$ to spend anyway and they are notorious for spamming.

We have yet to ever receive a review payment from that country so.....

thx
malcolm

 

auto-rent yeah...

Never heird of the dj man yet, and hope not in the future.
As for baning, I usually ban their IP, domain, mail.

I think I have banned half of India untill now + many many others.

 

Many of these countries dont have it to spend so they resort to spamming thinking that it will get them included,
but it wont so blocking the entire country is the best solution

thx
malcolm

 

well if you ban india then you are losing business
what about the seo india guys submitting on behalf of their clients?

 

My biggest recurring spammers are for a group of florist sites. I guess the differences in general and niche directories would also impact the types of sites that are being pimped.

If these fools put as much time in their sites as they do spamming they wouldn't have to be spamming in the first place!

 

What about them?

We haven't received any submits from them....

98% of all our website submits come from USA, UK, and a handful from other
countries like Spain, Ireland, Canada ect ect.

But regardless of what they send and dont send...
We dont see "INDIA" being the major spam problem but more so
the Russian domains that are the constant spammers.



thx
malcolm

 

Frankly speaking, I have seen many people spamming who belong to different countries, be it US, UK, India, Russia, China, Australia, WHATEVER

There are BIG bunch of CRAP people coz of whom nations get targeted and countries get a bad name.

Lets leave countries, There should a be a spam submitter list where in such sites info are mentioned!

 

auto-rent and i thought it was just me that got those.

 

actually the other thread in which I mentioned someone requesting a link removed was a florist site
I think theres a lot of competition between them

 

One of my favorite ways to get rid of those annoying mass-auto-submit spammers:

The worst of these types of spammers are the ones that submit to your directory dozens (or hundreds) of times a day with crap like:

Title: ultram,soma,tramadol
URL: http://xanax.xepharmacy.com/xanax-overnight-cod.html
PageRank: -1
Description:
  
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<a href=http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=972495625>tramadol</a> 
<a href=http://us.cyworld.com/Buy-phentermine>Buy phentermine</a> 
<a href=http://forum.internetdomainmanagement.com/showthread.php?t=3215>Diazepam</a> 
<a href=http://www.mysportsforum.com/forums/t6800-buy-ambien.html>Buy ambien</a> 
<a href=http://www.gametab.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3336>Buy phentermine</a> 
<a h ...

Code (markup):

Open up your directory's submit.php and add the following code:

// Check Description for SPAM
if (preg_match("/\href=/i", $data['DESCRIPTION']))
{
Header("Location: http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/");
return;
}

Code (markup):

This adds a redirect to this page ( ) when someone submits a description with "href=" in it.

A couple other codes that are great against these mass spammers...

// Check Description for SPAM 2
if (preg_match("/\http:/i", $data['DESCRIPTION']))
{
Header("Location: http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/");
return;
}

Code (markup):

// Check Description for SPAM 3
if (preg_match("/\[url=/i", $data['DESCRIPTION']))
{
Header("Location: http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/");
return;
}

Code (markup):

The two examples above redirect to the GFY page when a spammer submits a description with "http:" or "[url=" in it.

P.S. I added the above codes right above the "$RegularLink_notif = true;" line in the submit.php page.

 

Auto spam is not a issue here, it works the best with Rob's Spam Guard.

Manual spam/non-paid submission is the biggest issue. Moreover what do these people think I don't simply understand, spamming Paid directories and ALL of them.

My question to them would be: Are we FOOLS sitting here or we don't understand a different between commercial and non commercial sites???

 

Good deal

Maybe thats the best course of action to stop the automated clown that submits that garbage daily...

thx
malcolm

 

If our directory script is phpld we can also use banned word mod which helped me a lot.

 

Yeah i like that feature on phpLD some of the words i store as banned words make me blush.