Sorry, this is a bit OT, but we're using CF for the site, so thought I'd see
what other CF folks are doing about it.
We've got a very busy legacy home-grown forum that since late August 2009 or
so has been getting hit heavily by the Link-Building industry. Posting
requires membership, which
So... Let me make sure I understand.
They pass the Captcha and they also click the link in the email?
That's some serious scripting. The reCaptcha stopped all spam to my
site. If they are clicking on the email links as well, that's pretty
advanced..
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Kris Jones
Yeah, this is what is so astounding. Most of the emails are
yahoo.comaddresses, but we're seeing an increase in
gmail.com addresses as well. And we do require unique email address for
membership.
Figure it has to be manual to some extent.
Cheers,
Kris
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:33 AM,
If they are clicking on the email links as well, that's pretty
advanced..
No its not. It's simple.
A small challenge for a general purpose one, but trivial if you're targeting a
specific site/application.
If you know how to use cfpop, rematch and cfhttp, you can throw an email
validation
Look in your Web server logs to see exactly what path someone takes in
order to do those posts. First verify that they are going through your
security mechanism, instead of bypassing it entirely. It could be
that your site has a security vulnerability that is being exploited.
You might also be
Actually I would be more inclined to think that your link spammers came
from a low cost human labor pool like Amazon Mechanical Turk.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
But if not, that is some pretty sophisticated coding.
SEO is the new spam.
G!
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Phillip
By Link-Builders, spam, call it what you will. I mean stuff like (and I can
only hope this post doesn't get halted by HOF) chiropractic ads, weight
reducing, timeshare investments, cooking dvds, sports equipment, food
preparation equipment, you name it.
I will start taking a look at the logs
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.comwrote:
SEO is the new spam.
Certainly is - I've just spent a couple of days putting in an approval
system for www.nibblous.com - getting more and more spam in comments and
recipe postings, and even profiles.
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mac jordan
Not even suggesting it can't be done. Of course it can be done, and with
fairly basic skills. However, I can tell, from at least 2 of the most
egregious offenders, that they are getting links inserted (with success) on
other sites. So it's not just our site.
And yeah, many of the IPs (that
I dont think you mentioned using CFFormProtect, but it is another layer that I
have used.
http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/
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: SOT: Preventing Link-Builders
Not even suggesting it can't be done. Of course it can be done, and with
fairly basic skills. However, I can tell, from at least 2 of the most
egregious offenders, that they are getting links inserted (with success) on
other sites. So it's not just our site
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.comwrote:
Actually I would be more inclined to think that your link spammers came
from a low cost human labor pool like Amazon Mechanical Turk.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
But if not, that is some pretty
I don't know if this is an option for you but I thought I would throw it out
there for consideration.
I had some comment spam on my blog for some world of warcraft gold sites
(whatever TF *that* is). I had a captcha on it but they were getting around
that. So I added a snippet of code that would
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