Request for abuse!

[bochgoch]

I have a new spammer commenting on one of my blogs, the same message dozens of time....

cool site for my mind its very goodPlease, send your abuse here!!! XXXXXX@gmail.com

Nice of them to ask for abuse ... if you were to send abuse to a spammer what would it be? ... Please keep the answers clean(ish)

[temi]

Just a short reply saying you (insert 4 letter word here) stop spamming me

[vicdigi]

Yep, I too have been getting spammed comments. Not entirely certain but I think by upgrading to WP 2.5 could help cut out spam!

[TnT]

...just a thought, if that is a valid email address, and they're thinking that loads of people are going to send abuse back....isn't that a good way of building up a spam list by getting large amounts of email abuse being sent to them?

[KingPin]

I personally wouldn't bother sending anything back. I can think of far more productive things to do than play games with spammers.

KP

[RiverWire]

It's prob not the real email and is prob a bot that is doing the spamming and putting that email as its own. i get loads of the same thing every week on one of my sites, if it was a real person it would take him hours a day just to spam my site alone.

[deluxdon]

Originally Posted by vicdigi

Yep, I too have been getting spammed comments. Not entirely certain but I think by upgrading to WP 2.5 could help cut out spam!

I am second that. Upgrade it to WP v2.5

DON.

[bochgoch]

Actually a couple of my blogs are already 2.5 ... + the latest version of akismet - they still get plenty of spam .... when will spammers learn?

Does spam pay?

Originally Posted by bochgoch

Actually a couple of my blogs are already 2.5 ... + the latest version of akismet - they still get plenty of spam .... when will spammers learn?

Does spam pay?

Yes, obviously, otherwise there would be no spam. The reason is that it almost costs nothing for spammers to send spam and even if one or two people make purchase based on that spam, they make profit. The day everyone learns to ignore spam would be the day spam proliferation will stop, who knows maybe few months or years later spam may even be completely eliminated from our inbox.

[bochgoch]

Originally Posted by dman_2007

Yes, obviously, otherwise there would be no spam. The reason is that it almost costs nothing for spammers to send spam and even if one or two people make purchase based on that spam, they make profit. The day everyone learns to ignore spam would be the day spam proliferation will stop, who knows maybe few months or years later spam may even be completely eliminated from our inbox.

Sounds like we all better start spamming then