By now you probably wondering.... Why do these spammers continue to bother putting out all this spam? Expecially when there are organizations like us that take out the spammers web sites and links to them. We figure that we get anywhere's in the neighborhood of about five thousand spam posting attempts daily now. That equates out to one hundred and fifty thousand messages a month, just in web spam. This doesn't acount for the forty thousand daily email spams, that gets filtered out and canned before it even hits the mail server. So whats all this mean to you as the reader? Keep reading.
Ever since weblogs have come out, the internet has been used by the criminals to advertise on throw-a-way domains and web sites. What is meant by this is the fact that these criminals are buying domains and hosting them on sites over in china or using DNS redirects to gather images from legiimate sites. They are also deploying such scripts to make you think that you are visiting a certain site, whiloe all the time you are actually redirected to the criminals site some place else. These url includes are becoming popular amunst the spammers. They use most of the free blog sites like Yahoo, MSN, Google and Blogspot to host these spam pages. Then within the pages are the links connected to images that once loaded they can either do a sudden redirect to another site or just load like the rest of the page. These images are linked to various sites around the world.
What we have been doing is disecting these pages and going after the host providers to have these end sites taken down, hence the elimination of the images and their links. We figure it this way, if the web pages don't have links to follow, the criminals cannot make money as an affiliate. Some of these spammers have tried to be creative in their ways of hiding their trail. Not a problem for us as we investigate all leads and disect all links internally.
So as for the spammers, we'll keep having your domains and links disconnected if you continue to illegally advertise (spam).
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