I’ve just received a suspicious email: Hello, I am interested in purchasing a text link to my site on yours – tellini.info . Could you please advise what is the price for advertising space on your site? Thank you in advance Why suspicious? For starters, I don’t get that many visitors to justify the many …
Tag: spam
A new way to collect email addresses to spam?
I’m starting to suspect that spammers try to collect and verify email addresses from PAD files using bogus sites as honeypots. In fact, lately I’ve received several mails which are all based on the same template: Hello, my name is John, and I am an associate of SITEURL Briefly, here is what we do. We …
Captcha breakers? No, thanks!
Several months ago, I’ve added a captcha check to the contact page to stop spammers from flooding my mailbox. Today, with much surprise, I’ve received a comment to that post from a guy trying to sell his services: We the leading Data processing company in Bangladesh. Presently we are processing 300000+ captcha per day by …