Kitchen spam...what to do?

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Some of you may have noticed a recent rise in UK kitchen-related spam on this forum, caused by some over-zealous Indonesian SEO outfit, resulting in extra work for the hard-working moderators.

I would just like to point out that it would be very wrong if members of this forum responded to this spam by contacting the companies involved, and used their web form to contact them with spurious requests for quotations, which would cause them much extra work for no return.

Remember - very wrong, and I did not order a Code Red.

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AWOL:
Some of you may have noticed a recent rise in UK kitchen-related spam on this forum, caused by some over-zealous Indonesian SEO outfit, resulting in extra work for the hard-working moderators.

I would just like to point out that it would be very wrong if members of this forum responded to this spam by contacting the companies involved, and used their web form to contact them with spurious requests for quotations, which would cause them much extra work for no return.

Remember - very wrong, and I did not order a Code Red.

Hmm, that seems like a very simple task. The kind that Arduino's are good at. Armies of Arduino's.

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Like a denial of service attack back at them? Operation Spam the spammers.

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Like a denial of service attack back at them?

No, certainly not - that would be wrong.

Just so that no one is in any doubt, the company they are not to contact has a website with the usual prefix involving three "w"s, then a dot, then the words "kitchen" and "design1" run together without spaces, then a suffix indicating that they are a COmpany in the UK.

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I would not know how to do so.
So i definitely won't
Jantje

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It seems like we're not the only forum to suffer spam from the company mentioned in reply #3 - they're all over various forums like a bad rash, and the company itself (surprise, surprise) has a very poor reputation.

I wonder if their domain registrar, godaddy.com, would appreciate some indication of their customer's transgressions?

We could all write our comments to "abuse@godaddy.com", and don't forget the domain name in reply #3.

After some more digging, nice guy he even has his own Wikipedia biog

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These guys have a nice approach - scroll down about halfway. ]:smiley:

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I've just started deleting accounts & all posts vs banning. I don't know if it helps.

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I just did a quick trawl of some of the Indonesian IP addresses mentioned - there's an awful lot of fake accounts coming from that corner of the world.

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CrossRoads:
I've just started deleting accounts & all posts vs banning. I don't know if it helps.

If they have links in their profiles, that improves their search engine ranking. The search engines may be smarter than that now though.

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CrossRoads:
I've just started deleting accounts & all posts vs banning. I don't know if it helps.

What, you can't do both?

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Yes, but deleting is quicker ]:smiley:

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