I don’t usually take the time to out spammers but in the case of this particular company I am making an exception because their methods are likely to cost businesses even more time than spam already does.
They ask questions in blogs that are highly relevant to their business, requesting recommendations on products and even quotes which are likely to have those businesses spending time answering them. By the questions they ask it is obvious they are very intelligent.
Maybe they will be intelligent enough to be monitoring Social Media or search engine results for searches on their name and realize that their strategy WILL damage their reputation and IS stealing the time of the businesses where they comment.
They have been persistently hitting Florida Millwork company’s blog that I manage. So many questions came from that one domain that is was obvious they are spammers.
Here are some examples so you can see how a business could think they are real inquiries: Any tips or tricks for getting new trim and millwork to fit together at the miters?
- Any tips or tricks for getting new trim and millwork to fit together at the miters?
- Hi I have a quick question. What color should go below chair rail, if above it is 3 inch green and off white vertical stripes?
- I need some input on how to best construct nine foot tall wood exterior doors?
- What colors look good in a kitchen with white cabinets and a chair rail?
- How do I install hardwood or laminate flooring?
- Which of these woods last the the longest outside in a Texas Gulf Coast area?
- If wood from a cut oak tree is very dense, does that mean it’s good for furniture making?
As you can see, these are all questions someone interested in buying specialty or reclaimed woods or architectural moldings from that company might ask.
If they had only asked one question no doubt the helpful folks at Good Millwork would have wasted valuable time answering or even quoting prices based on their inquiries.
Fortunately I caught them immediately and delete everything they submit. I am sharing this here to hopefully save at least a few of the other businesses they spam from wasting their valuable time.
Spammers are thieves of the worst sort because they steal our TIME and TIME is the one thing we can NOT buy or replace.
Maybe they didn’t think through the consequences of their actions and would like to reform their evil ways or the owner of that site is not aware of what is being done on their behalf. If they change their ways they should let me know and I’ll update this post.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
They use many different names, keywords and email addresses and different pages on the researchmyname.com domain.
IP address used: 80.6.21.131
Gail Gardner
They have tried hitting our website lately with an Asynchronous attack from 80.6.21.131 (a virgin media internet connection – probably from an office or someone’s home). It triggered the security system in less than half a second and blocked them, no doubt they’ll be back trying again.
The IP address indicates our attackers are in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Lots of varied run on sentences and words mashed together is a signature of these types of folks as well.
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Many times these tools make their responses run on sentences as well.
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Yeah spammers have been multiplied faster.
almost they are all in every forum and websites.
they used it as their business.
But how can we detect the spammer specially if we don’t have any about that?
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Ya know– in Hawaii, SPAM is considered a delicacy (LOL).
LOL….I needed that. 🙂
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They’re pretty @#%& persistent, too. My blog is a photo blog, and their spam engine seems pretty adept at gathering just enough info from the words in the post to ask questions that have a decent chance of being related.
Of course, when you’ve had the same question asked a dozen times on any post that has trees in it… exact same wording, but different people asking… c’mon.
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Thanks for making the light shine even brighter on these folks. Maybe if more people pointed them out they would stop this mess and become a more professional enterprise.
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It certainty is a step too far, basically conning the business it to believing they may have a valuable lead, which as you say they then may spend valuable time working on and for what? No return, spammers at least have the decency to stick to ‘great post, thanks’!
It’s amazing how far spammers go.
Yeah I’ve been hit with the spam from researchmyname.com too and I was also amazed how much their comments looks like legitimate questions.