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May 24, 2012

Facebook Stalker Spam

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Good grief. What’s up with the Facebook Stalker app (and all the idiots that are promoting it)? Folks, it’s just another way that scammers are getting you to give up your Facebook password. Don’t fall for it! First of all, if your Facebook security is good (no telephone numbers, addresses or real birth years), then [...]

How NOT to Recruit Affiliate Marketers

One morning back in March, I hit ‘Check Mail’ on my email client and was horrified to see more than 300 emails downloading. When all was said and done, about 20 of those emails were valid. 285 of them however were all the same – see the screenshot below. The email came from an adult [...]

Video: The Lighter Side of Blog Comment Spam Moderation

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I found 265 spam comments in my blog’s comment moderation queue this afternoon. This video shows how I actually do filter through mountains of spam looking for valid comments that go astray and get mistaken as spam. And although it seems like I’m scrolling through the list pretty quickly, the video (or running Camtasia) seems [...]

Trackback Spam

One of our newest NPT Forum members, DLZ, discovered something odd in the moderation queue of his new blog and was wondering if he’d been spammed. This is the answer to his question. If you’ve been blogging for more than a day or two, you’ve probably seen trackback requests in your Moderation Queue. Provided that [...]

How to Protect Yourself Against Hackers

One of my servers was recently hacked — and although I don’t want to alarm you, you should know that your sites could be subject to attack at any time. To help you protect your sites and your data, in this article I share what happened to my sites and why. More importantly, I’ll tell [...]

Website Advertising Enquiry Spam

Over the last couple of weeks the email address posted on my domain records has been completely inundated with emails sporting subject lines such as “Website Advertising Enquiry” as shown in the screenshot below. These emails typically show up with one of the following subject lines: Website Inquiry Website Advertising Inquiry Marketing Inquiry Website Partnership [...]

Prayer for Spammers

If you tried to access the site yesterday, you probably found it a slow load – if it loaded at all. That’s because some dastardly, rotten, no-good email spammer hacked into the server and used a forgotten test blog to send upwards of a quarter million emails. The server crashed, but fortunately my fabulous web [...]