Re: Heads up - new scam ?

**D* G* <d*@kos.net>**

Followup note to the post below.  This is clearly spam now.  I've got  
an ip and spam check on it.  The same text today to another Japanese  
site but with a different url and post to my blog.  So if you see it -  
delete it.  Man, these guys are getting better and better. ;-)

Doug

Douglas Green
Online Garden Publishing
Blog:  http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

On 20-Apr-08, at 10:28 AM, Douglas Green wrote:

> I'm smelling something really fishy here and I thought I'd pass it
> along.  I got a note on my blog from
> firststepgardening.blogspot.com    indicating that they had put a link
> onto my site and asking would I give them a link back.
>
> When I went to the site, (all in Japanese) there were a significant
> number of outbound links *to* other sites including two to mine.
>
> Being suspicious, I ran the page through Babelfish translation and it
> came out very incoherent.  This may be a function of Babelfish or it
> might be because the text is machine generated (it surely resembles
> that kind of text).  There are no other links on the site other than
> the main list on the bottom of each page.  I  ran several pages
> through Babelfish and got the same result.
>
> One other bothersome item was the subtitle on the header - written in
> English resembling a keyword combination.
>
> I've seen a few other fishing expeditions lately where sites are set
> up - ostensibly in good faith and then transformed after incoming
> links are generated into something quite different.  Because automatic
> software is in an ongoing war, many spammers are resorting to human
> completed forms using teams of submitters to leave the same link.
> Once you recognize one name on a form, you can google that name and
> see the trail they've left behind.   For example, Abe Torkleton is now
> everywhere as this spider tries to penetrate all manner of automatic
> sentry systems. :-)
>
> This is the first one I've seen in a foreign language (I have all
> things Russian banned from my various sites but that's another
> story) :-)   As the old tv line went, "Just be careful out there
> people" when you see requests for outbound links.
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Green
> Online Garden Publishing
> Blog:  http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
> Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
>
>
>
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