TOP 10 TECH » Fighting Spam http://top10tech.com Wed, 16 May 2012 18:35:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 How to Block Random Number Comment Spam at IP Level http://top10tech.com/how-to-block-random-number-comment-spam-at-ip-level/ http://top10tech.com/how-to-block-random-number-comment-spam-at-ip-level/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:44:48 +0000 Brett Bumeter http://www.top10tech.com/web/2008/11/13/blogging-tips/how-to-block-random-number-comment-spam-at-ip-level/ commentary: Over the last couple of days a number of bloggers have been targeted by a new type of comment spam.  The spam typically comes from a different name and email address, but the same IP number range of 94.102.60.15x.  The x can be anything from 0 – 4. The comment text is populated by about Read the full commentary... Related posts:
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Over the last couple of days a number of bloggers have been targeted by a new type of comment spam.  The spam typically comes from a different name and email address, but the same IP number range of 94.102.60.15x.  The x can be anything from 0 – 4.

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The comment text is populated by about 17 characters of what appears to be random text.  In fact the email address populated in the comment also appears to be randomly populated.

The IP address appears to be the only...

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Sometimes website owners will incorrectly be associated and reported as a spammer.  (I’m talking email spam here.)

Unfortunately it is all to easy for an email spammer to simply code your email address into the header of an email, even though they are actually sending the email from some other email account and then your email account gets associated with grand titles like term life insurance quotes or the latest Brittany Spears viral image teaser of the day or sometimes it is used in PayPal or Ebay phishing emails.

I’m sure you have probably seen an email that appears to...

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