May 5, 2010

A few curious spam statistics

In the last two months, I have been tracking not only spam attempts but also IP address usage. Much to my surprise, most spam attempts are just a one-shot 'hit' from any given IP address. I am looking at a total of 359 spam attempts in the last 45 days with only 26 of these being repeats. Out of those repeats, only five of them hit more than five times with the majority of the repeats just being a single repeat. What is also interesting is that there has been an uptick in the use of multiple domain names in spams -- since I filter against a flatfile of words (pharma, casino games, pr0n terms), the more of these terms you use will guarantee: #1) - the more new terms I can add to my flatfile and #2) - the more likely it is that you will trip my moderate script Talk about an all around lose/lose scenario -- but then again, I never ever figured these mokes to be winners by any stretch of the imigination... Posted by DaveH at May 5, 2010 7:18 PM
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