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After months of underground investigation, we have discovered the following
information and while we have held onto this information for some time
to develop antispam measures and try to dig deeper into the
"spambot community", we simply feel we must release this
information NOW!
There are a few Russian "companies" promoting spambot software as a black hat SEO campaign..
We are working on having many of them shut down via their credit card processors
(as we have found that complaints to their web hosts are futile as most
of these foreign spammers are the web hosts, so we are attempting to cut off their funding instead).
In the meantime you should know that if they hit your site, it will be in their database and shared with all of their "customers". What’s worse yet is their software database of "spammable forums" is constantly updated by the illegal Russian spambot software provider.
This is a major issue as even if you implement the mods we suggest and utilize our blacklists, this company is getting $500 per copy of their software and also charging a monthly fee to
update their database to workaround any countermeasures you make and
once your site is spammed, it will forever continue to be in their
updated databases.
Once your forum is no longer spammable due to mods you may have installed, these Russian phucknuts begin updating their database to perform workarounds to the mods you have made and then it is shared with the thousands of spammers that have purchased their software.
This is only a couple of rogue groups in the mix; many others operate this way but are not so blatant with promoting and selling their illegal software...
Many spam groups share this $500 software for free without a charge but trade/share amongst themselves in exchange for updated databases of forums...
To give you an idea of the extent of the database sharing that goes on, even those that paid for higher end mods, most custom captcha's are easily defeated with this software, and those mods with rotating or random questions are also defeated with rotating answers and proxies..
To give you an idea of the magnitude of this problem,
with just this one bot program alone and it's database of over 100,000 forums and
only 50 spammers using it's software promoting 5 sites daily each, that equates to
25,000,000 (25 million) spam memberships and spam posts a day. (9,125,000,000
/ 9.125 billion a year). I am quite certain more than 50
spammers are using just this software so our figures above are quite
conservative. (And this is just one spam bot program)
The only way we feel we can stop the bulk of this type of organized illegal activity is to cut off their funding.
And we are committed to doing so. The problem we are having is the usual issue: "time and
money"..
If you wish to help contribute to the cause, please
send a donation, however small via paypal to contact@submitasite.com *
Even a $1 donation will mean something,, a $1
donation from multiple forum admins will fuel the fire to close these
illegal companies down.
*Any donations will be used solely in the fight to
take these companies down.
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