Comments on: March of the Spambots

By: OleAleksander.net » Blog Archive » Hello Mr. Spammer… (Die! Die! Die!)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:44:51 +0000

[...] I got hit by a spammer “jacob73kolp” earlier this week. I thought I had a new friend, but some research lead to this pice of information: http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/13/march-of-the-spambots/ [...]

By: How to build this blog 11: The Scourge of Spambot jacob73kolp | mental neighbo(u)rs

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:30:15 +0000

[...] page after page of user profiles. In amongst it all I saw the word ’spambot’ (Thanks to The Lair of The Cubelodyte and [...]

By: Astarta

Astarta — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:18:14 +0000

Thanx for the info, I’ve got jacob73kolp.

Removed him =)

By: Spam Bot!

Spam Bot! — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:50:15 +0000

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By: lipservice

lipservice — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:24:19 +0000

The bot seems to enjoy #7. I had half been expecting a visitor to register at my lipservice blog recently (maybe!), because I emailed JO at million dollar article and asked him to reply to my blog post.

So after seeing jacob73kolp register and not make a comment at all yet, I thought I would google the name. Not what I had originally thought, but yeah, more or less my luck of the draw in regards to responses.

Thanks for sharing the info!

PS. used to hang out with some sievers’ in Kentucky.

By: ianimaru

ianimaru — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:30:13 +0000

thank you very much for this post..this bot join my blog today..removed this bot now.

By: The Cubelodyte

The Cubelodyte — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:22:46 +0000

You’re welcome! Hopefully it’ll prevent the bots from registering again. It seems like a new one pops up every two or three weeks, so if one hasn’t shown up by late July I’ll be cautiously optimistic that the plugin is keeping them out.

By: mwhities

mwhities — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:13:58 +0000

Chuck, I appreciate the reCAPTCHA. It’s working well. Not that I get a lot of people signing up.

By: breakingwaves

breakingwaves — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:43:15 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the public service announcements, I have just had ken and jacob register in the last week. Tomorrow I will load up Register Plus and reCAPTCHA. I had enough trouble registering on your site, skwinting at the image verifier – but they may have been the red wine !

Adrian.

By: The Cubelodyte

The Cubelodyte — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:18:36 +0000

The CAPTCHA I'm using is part of a plugin called Register Plus (I went back to Skullbit's plugin after finding they'd released a new version recently). The particular image verifier I'm using can be used with Register Plus, and requires registration with reCAPTCHA. It's free and very easy.

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Spam Bot. - www.sysconms.com - Web Hosting and IT Support — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:40:13 +0000

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By: mwhities

mwhities — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:37:17 +0000

I had the same bot join my page. Thanks for posting this. I’ve since removed this bot.

Where did you get the image verifier? Is it a plugin? I’m looking now.

Thanks.

By: The Cubelodyte

The Cubelodyte — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:13:35 +0000

No problem! As I said, I figure it’s a my good deed for the day to let everybody know this “user” is a phony and probably up to no good.

By: Egor Kolosov

Egor Kolosov — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:47:36 +0000

Hello, thank u for article about spambots. It appeared that I have this jacob73kolp

By: My first spambot registration!

My first spambot registration! — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:00:38 +0000

[...] Its a spambot apparently; when I googled the email address I found this post. [...]