Comment spam is a problem that is increasing over time. New techniques have emerged that make it increasingly difficult to detect.
Carlos Bravo29
It's not even been a year since I published a post to find out when you were being spammed into your comments field . The techniques back then were in most cases easily recognizable.
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The vast majority of spammers were posting comments in English and Japanese. Now this side of blogging is experiencing a major expansion phase with spam comments in German, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. The latter are especially appearing more and more in the spam comments on my blog. Maybe the Italian mafia has discovered a new business niche that is making them profitable…
Contents [ disguise ]
1 A calculation on the profitability of spam
2 The problem of blog spam for the blogger
3 Recent Techniques to Make Spam More Effective
A calculation on the profitability of spam
For the average user, it may be completely incomprehensible japanese phone numbers list that spam can be a great source of income. It is a completely illegal activity that is punishable by several years in prison depending on the severity of the case. Despite this, there are still many people who take the risk because the potential income can be significant.
In a university study, a conversion rate of 0.000008% was calculated . In 26 days, they had made 28 sales by sending more than 350 million emails. Each sale brought them $100 in profit. According to the scientists' estimates, the system could be scaled to send up to 70 times more emails in the same period of time. If you are interested in the full study from the University of Berkeley, you can download it here .