{"id":783,"date":"2008-05-29T20:17:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T00:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=783"},"modified":"2008-05-29T20:17:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T00:17:49","slug":"i-take-the-suck-out-of-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/29\/i-take-the-suck-out-of-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"I Take the &#8220;Suck&#8221; out of &#8220;Internet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Working title: &#8220;Using Crafty Google Searches to Turn in Spammers&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like most Internet users, I get a lot of spam. GMail filters 99.99999999% of it correctly, but I periodically browse through the spam to make sure. One day I read one of them, and realized it linked to <em>something<\/em>.blogspot.com, a Blogger blog. As I&#8217;ve previously posted, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/help.blogger.com\/?page=troubleshooter.cs&#038;problem=&#038;contact_type=Spam&#038;Submit=Submit\">report spam blogs to Blogger<\/a> with a simple form.<\/p>\n<p>So I then searched my spam for &#8220;blogspot&#8221; (<tt>in:spam blogspot<\/tt>) and went to the handful of URLs (stripping off any variables passed) to verify they were spam, and reported each.<\/p>\n<p>But it gets better! I reported maybe 4 people that way. But I get a <em>lot<\/em> of spam with the subject &#8220;What a stupid face you have here $name,&#8221; where $name is the e-mail address they send it to. The body of the message just contains the word &#8220;Watch&#8221; with a link, which always takes you to a file called watch.exe on various servers (most likely hacked by a worm to host there?)&#8230; I&#8217;m not about to download it to see what it does, though, but I assume it&#8217;s no good.<\/p>\n<p>So I was curious about it, so I Googled &#8220;what a stupid face you have here,&#8221; and realized that a <em>lot<\/em> of the results were spam. And, in fact, several were on Blogger. So I refined my search to <tt>site:blogspot.com \"what a stupid face you have\"<\/tt>, and started clicking through to find them. A few are people posting <em>about<\/em> the mail, but most are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Splogs\">splogs<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working title: &#8220;Using Crafty Google Searches to Turn in Spammers&#8221; Like most Internet users, I get a lot of spam. GMail filters 99.99999999% of it correctly, but I periodically browse through the spam to make sure. One day I read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/29\/i-take-the-suck-out-of-internet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}