Category Archives: Sad Spammers

When I want to vent about the morons who spam email systems and bombard forums with their useless junk

Reporting Akismet identified spam using fail2ban

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Steve

I use fail2ban to protect my server. I additionally report the IP addresses  to AbuseIPDB  But Forum spam is a big problem as anyone with a blog will know I have Akismet configured, which pretty much stops it all from … Continue reading →

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State Sponsored hacking?

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Steve

So yesterday my site got hit by a large number(140) of Chinese IP addresses  all trying to login to my site. Fail2 ban blocked them and sent me lots of emails: Then this morning another pile of Chinese IP addresses … Continue reading →

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More Botnet stats

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Steve

So I upgraded Fail2ban and so had to restart it. As it stores it’s bans in a database it can restore them at start up. And what a depressingly long list it is for the botnet: 2017-08-05 14:58:20,149[dovecot-disconnect] Ban 1.163.34.115 … Continue reading →

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Spammers really don’t get it do they?

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Steve

Going through the spam comments on one of the sites I found the following: Yes that’s right… 3 comments on the SAME post from the SAME IP address… how could that not be spam?  

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Bad IPs

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Steve

Its the list of usual suspects – China featuring high in the list of machines trying to break into servers (no surprises there) and OVH : 89.248.174.27 60.173.16.74 161.0.153.110 123.214.172.84 218.27.147.130 120.203.25.58 41.110.189.60 62.99.78.120 155.4.33.255 223.241.247.6 218.5.3.45 46.181.62.158 221.3.236.94 114.251.196.28 … Continue reading →

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More shit from the internet

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Steve

I tightened up the fail2ban rules after looking at my mail logs. The result is impressive but at the same time depressing … so many machines trying to break into my server. Several from GoDaddy…. I guess they’re starting to … Continue reading →

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I guess enom.com are quite happy being associated with spammers

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Steve

Yet more spam… same crap.. from the same people on a new domain: Domain Name: PREVOKEE.COM Registry Domain ID: NA Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com Registrar URL: www.enom.com Updated Date: 2017-03-06T08:18:22.00Z Creation Date: 2017-03-06T16:18:00.00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-03-06T16:18:00.00Z Registrar: ENOM, … Continue reading →

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Another spammer

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Steve

Same usual shit… Domain is brand new too: Domain Name: METICANTS.COM Registry Domain ID: NA Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com Registrar URL: www.enom.com Updated Date: 2017-03-05T05:57:17.00Z Creation Date: 2017-03-05T13:57:00.00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-03-05T13:57:00.00Z Registrar: ENOM, INC. Registrar IANA ID: 48 … Continue reading →

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Trumpistas – Spamming my blog is not the way to increase the popularity of your shite site.

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Steve

Straight to Spam – both of them Australian Hosting company notified of the abuse…  and Blogger have removed the blog..    

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More Stupid Spammers

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Steve

I mean what sort of fuckwit would fall for this. And then I get another modified version of the same shit – with a different unmasked URL.

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