But if this new CAPTCHA becomes common, it won't be long before
spammers turn their attention to cracking the problem, with potential fringe benefits to cameras and image editing software.
The spammers turned to services that could allow them to register additional phone numbers for a small fee.
Not exact matches
But that
turned out to be too prone to
spammers, so I had to shut that aspect down.
I'm traveling off and on over the holidays, so I am going to
turn comments off now and then to keep the
spammers at bay.
Gosh... I'm really
turning out to be an evidence
spammer here.
This is attractive to
spammers because they know what you are looking for (a relationship) so they in
turn know what to spam you with.
Some are common sense (never hit on a married person,
turn off your cell phone, ignore emails from obvious
spammers).
Most people are wary of unsolicited advertisements by email, so
spammers have now
turned to dating sites, sending unsolicited ads and links via online messaging platforms.
Found a great example of how lack of social accountability
turns normal people into abusers and
spammers.
Remember that sending a reply to a
spammer confirms your email address as a good one which in
turn can encourage more spam to that address as
spammers can sell lists of live addresses for more money.
You may choose to remove a LinkedIn Connection if they
turn out to be a
SPAMMER or if they operate in a manner that you find reprehensible.
Turns out that the majority of your website's traffic may be thanks to non-human search engines, scrapers, hacking tools, and
spammers.
If comments are
turned off on a post, it is due to
spammers, so drop me an email instead.