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geeone90

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=279079

Wants to meet all the plumbing demands of Fort Worth, Texas.
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WE HAVE PUT OVER 200 WEBSITES ON THE 1ST PAGE OF GOOGLE

Yeah, by spamming the world. There needs to be stiffer penalties for this crap. I am going to report these two...to someone, if I can figure out who. :stare:

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 1669717)

Ok, here's an interesting case: http://www.fortworthplumbing.info/

That was one of the spam sigs. I called the poor receptionist and told her to let the owner know that the SEO he hired is spamming the hell out of the work. That SEO is listed on the bottom of his site as http://www.influxseo.com/

Yeah, by spamming the world. There needs to be stiffer penalties for this crap. I am going to report these two...to someone, if I can figure out who. :stare:

Like, these links are poor, lacks relevant content lists, and are registered as bad domains, ie, with hindsight, an excellent spot for Spambot and other crap.

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 1669717)

Yeah, by spamming the world. There needs to be stiffer penalties for this crap. I am going to report these two...to someone, if I can figure out who. :stare:

From Wikipedia page on SEO abuse...

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Search engines may penalize sites they discover using black hat SEO methods, either by reducing their rankings or eliminating their listings from their databases altogether. Such penalties can be applied either automatically by the search engines' algorithms, or by a manual site review. One infamous example was the February 2006 Google removal of both BMW Germany and Ricoh Germany for use of deceptive practices. Both companies, however, quickly apologized, fixed the offending pages, and were restored to Google's list.

Sounds like targeting them where it would most hurt them, via the search engines themselves, is the best route. Although knowing your dealings with Google before... they're not the most responsive company to complaints, are they :roll:

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 1669262)

The guy with the OLDEST spam find will win a SUBSIM mug.

:hmmm:

Does Jimbuna count? :88)

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1669337)

ryanbayot

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=278777

Corsets....CORSETS!!

http://thedailytreat.com/wp-content/...1/corset-1.jpg

We may have to keep this one Neal. :shucks:

Hahahaha :haha:

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Originally Posted by Raptor1 (Post 1669691)

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=278126 (Danish?)

Yep, it's Danish. Some site for getting rid of smoking problems at some clinic in western Denmark (Jutland). It's spam allright.:yep:

Anyway, good luck getting rid of spammer accounts.:up:

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Originally Posted by Dowly (Post 1669733)

:hmmm:

Does Jimbuna count? :88)

Average 24.66 post per day!!! :eek:

Check out http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/memb...date&page=1188 and http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/memb...date&page=1189
All accounts between Das Boot and Reece 2 (???), created on 05-21-2004.
Dozends of accounts made by somebody who banged his head on the keyboard.

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Originally Posted by Penguin (Post 1669790)

There are a lot of accounts like that who are almost certainly spambots, but they have no posts and no information in their profiles so they there's not much direct evidence of them being spambots... :shifty:

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Originally Posted by Ria (Post 1669823)

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=274371

This one is not necessarily a spambot, there's no link and he logged on after the join date.

EDIT: Though it could be one of those that create an account but only post a year or so later, to make it seem more legitimate. Very sneaky.

I am very impressed for such work:yeah::rock:

With my little or null experience in spam etc and the little Halo i played it make me thing only of :SPAMPOCALYPSE
keep up the nice work, although the only doubt that i may have is that perhaps such action will be seen perhaps as a challenge to spammers etc

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http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=274371

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Originally Posted by Raptor1 (Post 1669825)

Check the homepage on the contact info tab. ;)