Mar 03
Ever so occasionally I like to share the retarded spam the site gets. I just have to ask this one question: What is the point of this spam? There is no point, no call to action, nothing. Just weird and freaky, and spammy. Enjoy.
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Well piss could be used to rehydrate the body if you were really really REALLY thirsty. But still..weird.
I don’t think spam is actually an attempt to sell anything. There is nothing gained from the act of sending spam. Though it does open up the receivers of the spam to viruses, key-loggers, etc. But there could be a deeper meaning to it.
To cause bandwidth clogging. Imagine how much spam is sent over the internet to everyone. Daily. Sure it’s all little in byte size, but when you add up the numbers, I’m sure that’s Gbits of bandwidth that could be utilized more efficiently. It’s parasitic and adds nothing to the collective of the planet. Something that internet providers should start being more aggressive than just blocking the address from it’s source.
Kevin Costner drank his own urine in Waterworld…
vivianadamota.com isn’t even a real web site.
Weird stuff, Scott.
sometimes they test thier spam filters
Maybe its similar to:
Lick my chach!
Check out Craigslist sometime. That place is crawling with spam of all kinds.
Hey! Leave me ‘lone.
The ones I hate are the ones that appear like returns from the system administrator. They take an extra step to even delete. Again, no point to them, save for wasting time.
Well, by doing spam like this they can see if the email is active or not. They flood out the email to any email they can get their hands on. They don’t know if people actually read them or not. Then you know that this is a spam message but you are curious as to what it is so you click it and then it just sends a little echo response back to the spammers and then they mark your email as active and then compile a list of emails that are active and sell it to companies.
This means something. This is important.
@mercator
I get those ones at work sometimes amongst the ads for viagra and “replica” watches. They always strike me as odd.
The fact that it isn’t a real website may be because it has been taken down already. For those of you that want to do something about spam can report it to these guys: http://www.castlecops.com/sirt
Also the spam where u get a paragraph of total garbage, almost sentances but they never seem to make any sense. These are typically called ‘WORD SALAD’ which means that the spammer it activly trying to mess up the spam filters by tricking the word based filters. There are also other techniques such as bayesian poisoning which can fool spam filters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning
Scott if you want to combat this type of comment spam then it may be worth putting in a CAPTCHA.
Its also good practise never to have your e-mail address written in a way that a spam robot could harvest it. For example sometimes Scott puts his e-mail address like this: ‘myextralife at gmail dot com’, best practise is to put you e-mail in a picture where the bots cant harvest them easily or hide the e-mail behind a CAPTCHA.
Scott, I get the same stuff over at my site. I got a “I’m so glad you wrote this!!!” on a post i did about needing to update my blog. Of course this person was from a cancer stick web site.
Pee on the damn bush, Scott and quit bitching.
I bet it’s Kevin Costner trying to get us all on some strange fringe cult diet thing.
That guy drinks his own piss so why not turn it into a business?
Ewww…
i remember when he peed on that tree.
You all do realize I hope that this isn’t random at all, it’s doing this to get a higer pagerank on google for that site. If people search for piss or anything (and yes, that’s done quite often, you have no idea how many watersport fetishists there are out there, hell, I am one) on google (and any other webcrawler), they will get linked to that site.
That the site is down however is just odd. Oh well.
The point is the links they contain. Anything to drive traffic to their retarded web sites.
I have a particular spammer who keeps registering at Castle-Anthrax.us – I’m sure he’s using a bot to do it, because a human would realize within minutes that the registration won’t be activated until I approve it. I change his URL in the registration, “approve” the account, and add him to the group that has no access to the site.
Hey, it amuses me to screw with spammers’ heads, OK?
Now that I look at it it now seems like a demand.
“Drink my piss!”
“No!”
“DRINK MY PISS, DAMN IT!”
“*sob* I’m not THAT thirsty! *bawl*”
They peed on a tree and drunk it.
Sometimes they try to get you to place normal sounding messages into your spam database so that other normal sounding messages are then also classified as spam. The net result is that you have to view your spammed messages and manually filter. That then in return, causes you to see the “legitimate” spam.
I’m not the only one who gets spam and drinks piss? Awesome!
Darth_yoda – you mean like the one I got today?!?!:
A level road. The stronger ones only among them hung in disorder
about a face like a piece of kshatriyas, for doing good
to the world. Having many arrows made wholly of iron, kunti’s
son owning income are managed and supervised by contented
which he had not quite shaken himself free. His that savyasaci
hath been protected by me. Victory utter abholicion. Wherfore,
sith the necessitie with honour, and having dwelt comfortably
at this and possessed of certain conclusions in respect
of handsome painted glass.either the antiquaries highsouled
assailant, caused the earth in that hic sapiens, de quo
loquor, oculis quibus iste an eye, stood mace in hand. Thy
sons then, beholding and awful to behold, like the wielder
of pinaka.