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Surreal Comment Spamming
I’ve been heavily hit by a spammer for the last few days and I figured I’d share the story…
Despite the fact that the spammer is using the same one line text and always links back to the same website, Akismet is having a hard time picking up this spam and has let 150 [...]
Posted: January 25th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: blog, spam, spammer
Comments: 10
The Big List of RCG Plugins
My list is a little longer than Greg’s…
Akismet. A must for WP blogs… I’ve complained in the past how their service is somewhat of a blackhole and I can’t seem to rescue a few of the people who leave comments on RCG from the Akismet spam filter. Nonetheless, the service catches hundreds of spam messages [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: akismet, archive, avatar, backup, comments, contact-form, database, geocode, gravatar, photos, php, plugins, print, rcg, real-estate, role, role-manager, spam, stats, tag, tags, wordpress, wp
Comments: 11
Sharing the spam - Is Zillow going to China?
I got an interesting piece of investor spam yesterday. This one was so interesting, I figured I share it and give somebody a good laugh or chuckle. Apparently they are talking up a company in China that has “pilfered every costly lesson learned by Rich Barton and pals… plus every breakthrough technology Microsoft gladly spent [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: email, humor, spam, Zillow
Comments: 3
20 million reasons to cancel AOL
Update: You can now search the AOL data from your web browser.
As promised earlier, I did some scans through the massive privacy invasion from AOL for some real state search insight. I’ll leave it to other sites to search for the tell you about the disgusting things people search for.
Not many AOL searchers are looking [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: aol, data, email, research, spam
Comments: 2
Real estate search patterns and AOL users
Yesterday AOL proudly announced the release of 20 million web queries from 650,000 users (screenshot), with each user “anonymized,” but identified by a unique ID. This is appalling - it means that potentially thousands of social security numbers and email addresses are now free for spammers and thieves to harvest, along with a lot [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: aol, data, email, research, spam
Comments: 8
