November 13, 2006
Really Bad Blog Spam
As many of you know, I fight a daily battle against spam robots who attempt to post an average of about 150 spam comments on the site. Most of them, these days, are for ringtones. Free ringtones. I don't get it, but there seems to be no offense beyond the nuisance factor of spam itself (unless there is something behind it that is nefarious, but I am not about to click on the thing to find out).
However, once in awhile I will get a slew of really raunchy, nasty things, things which, were they to actually be available, would be illegal. I am guessing that the majority of these sites are coming out of Russia and other third world places where there is not much regulation of these matters.
So, do any of my internet whizz readers know if there is any point in alerting any law enforcement authorities of this stuff, or would I be wasting my time. Also, which agency would be the ones to handle this sort of thing? FTC?
Posted by erik at November 13, 2006 8:24 AMSpam and parking are the two big problems of the early 21st century.
Posted by: Carson Park Ranger at November 15, 2006 9:46 PMI doubt reporting will do anything. You may want to look into CAPTCHA - you know, the distorted letters you have to enter on some sites. A quick Google produced these links:
www dot captcha dot bi z (your comment box wouldn't accept the dot b iz url)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
This guy found another alternative.
Posted by: Rick Lugari at November 13, 2006 10:11 AM