A gang of Turkish spammers have found my site

I woke up this morning and found 50 or so messages in my inbox saying that someone had left a comment on my website. Turns out that lukemcreynolds.com had been “profiled” in the r10.net forums as being an easy target for comment spam.

I found out the source of all the spam by looking at my referrer logs: all the new hits on my site were coming from http://r10.net/dmoz-ve-diger-dizinler/663993-kisa-sureli-dofollow-paylasimlari.html. In case the link gets taken down, here‘s a link to the content of the frontpage (PDF).

Anyway, I deleted all the spam comments and disabled commenting on the site for a little while. Commenting is back up now, but I’ll be keeping a close eye on things. It pisses me off that people are making money off of causing me work.

The person who posted the initial links to my site, inviting other to spam it, was “Serdal_Altundal”.

Posted on Jun 23, 2010 - 06:34 PM

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