5 Responses to “Rapidshare Wordpress Comment Spam”

1. Strangely on March 8th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

   At the last count today, doing a Google search on the string “/Rapidshare_Premium_Accounts_-_Latest_Issue.zip” produces nine hits on those blogs that have let it past for one reason or another… The ‘commenter’ is variously listed as: guest steve2 steve qwerty Interestingly, follow a link or two and there’s a whole world of intrigue out there on RapidShare including various ways to ‘make money’ as they call it! There is information on scraping passwords and using up bandwidth for this ‘free’ ’service’ pushing mainly cracked digital data of one format or another. I hope ironic usage of the concepts of ‘free’ and ’service’ isn’t lost on folks or else it shows a perilous decline in the correct usage of language, hah, hah. This comment (one of many, including the weird begging ones) in the linked post even has huge lists of the cracked ‘free’ passwords etc along with expiry dates. The begging comments are the funniest part of the whole charade of twisted thought processes. I tell you, it’s a whole new economic order and highly similar to the way the banks and financial services have been run for the last few years – that is; on the foundations of a vacuum. And for yet another reason for the easy and copious spread of computer malware and viruses across the globe, add the above business model. People just get suckered into anything, like oblivious sheep. This Indian dude seems to have even re-discovered pyramid selling in this post! He calls it a ‘program’ with instructions about how his chain letter system works. Unfortunately for him, people seem to have seen past it, but not the comment spammers. His post is full of them so follow the rar files at your peril. It should be caveat emptor, but no-one seems to buy anything. Like or Dislike: 0  0 Reply

2. Mark on April 19th, 2009 at 2:51 am

   Thanks for sharing this.Very useful components Like or Dislike: 0  0 Reply

3. Pligg Comment Spam | Strangely Perfect on June 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am

   [...] one appeared against the posting  rapidshare-wordpress-comment-spam, which is even more ironic, if anything!  It’s WHOIS entry is ‘protected’ by [...] Like or Dislike: 0  0 Reply

4. Jaun Millalonco on July 1st, 2009 at 9:13 pm

   Just wanted to say great job with the blog, today is my first visit here and I’ve enjoyed reading your posts so far :) Juan Like or Dislike: 0  0 Reply

   • Strangely on July 1st, 2009 at 10:16 pm

     Is Jaun Millalonco code for “socially engineering a backdoor into WordPress blogs by pretending to be a happy user in the hope that I’ll get registered and can thus make a later posting full of active content” – or not? Try this Google search on the name string: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Jaun+Millalonco%22 Then try a few links and see what I mean?… For example: http://www.digitalbattle.com/2009/04/09/wheelman-game-review-go-fast-turn-left-repeat-until-disgusted/#comment-65729 http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2006/09/28/jackson-putting-on-his-game-face/#comment-2474909 http://battlingforhealth.com/2006/06/spanish-singer-rocio-jurado-dies-after-long-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-10036 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2006/10/18/the-spanish-husband-by-michelle-reid/#comment-207383 http://lirneasia.net/2007/02/the-next-billion-is-from-asia-and-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-23007 It’s definately automated shit but there are no back-links or anything. Just enough for a poor blogger to let a comment through. Of course, anyone new to the game might promote someone to a higher role or have the defaults set too weak anyway. My guess is that the visitor will be back with a more effective payload to drop on the website – maybe some porn links or even, if they’re lucky, they may get to leave proper attachments with active content. They may, of course, be back with some backlinks to increase their visibility to search…? Anyway, I deemed the naff comment – worthy of a comment of my own. Make of that what you will. Like or Dislike: 0  0 Reply