Elliott Rodgers

Someone using the email address rhymnaninly@gmail.com via a Serbian ISP Inferno has repeatedly been spamming comments despite me making it very clear where I stand on these things in my rules for commenting.

Well I’ve notified their ISP and Google.

We shall see where Google stands on gmail users sending spam now.

If nothing else it made me better.

So another spammer decided to call me out on my Spam Policy. This one really f***ed me off by spamming the page where I shared my break up with my girlfriend.

So a report has been sent off to their ISP SoftLayer Technologies in Dallas, Texas, US identifying the bottom feeding pond scum and asking for appropriate action to be taken. I will add any progress to the bottom of this blog post. I’m not hopeful of any results given that the second Google Search Suggestion is SoftLayer Technologies Inc Spam which makes me think that a big group of people are searching for the term. We shall see.

Update: What a surprise…. it seems SoftLayer Technologies from Dallas, Texas, US has the same Allen Jenkins responding to abuse emails as Uubiquity Server Solutions! Regular and observant readers will recognise this as the company (and useless) person who responded to an earlier spam report complete with the same “we’ll refer it to the customer and never get back to you report“.

*rant*
Today I’ve had spam from the same bottom feeding pond scum spammer offering me
breast implants…
teeth whitening…
weight loss secrets…
p**is girth and length increase…
and both Valium and Viagra….

Oh and I missed off “teen acne treatment”…. Who or what the f**k does this spammer think I am?
*rant over*

So someone just had to try me on my Rules for leaving comments. Sadly you bottom-feeding pond scum, you picked the wrong day and the wrong time to behave like a t**t. This morning someone using an IP from Ubiquity Server Solutions decided to spam multiple times from the same IP on the same page. I know it was them as they had the same IP address each time. A screenshot of the spam comments and details has been sent.

I’ll update this post with any replies from Ubiquity Server Solutions… If any. I don’t count an automated reply telling me a ticket has been logged.

Oh and they used gmail accounts so I’ll probably report them to Google as well. After some marmite toast, cup of tea and doing the washing up from yesterday (I hate washing up so it’ll put me in the mood for a rant).

Update: Less than an hour later, had a reply from an Allen Jenkins saying they’d passed the complaint onto the customer responsible for the server oh and he added Thanks.

Update: They obviously take things “seriously” given that further spam reports went unanswered and they didn’t deal with the fact the original spammer sent an abusive message.

Way to go on a spam policy!

This is my policy with regard to spam both by e-mail and in the comments. DO NOT SPAM ME

Spam e-mails

Don’t send me spam e-mails including but not limited to offers of drugs, body enhancements, cheap watches, fake watches, cheap software, gambling, porn or dating. I have good filtering in place, so chances (basically 100%) are your spam wont get through. If it does then you stand a good chance of being reported.

Don’t send me phishing e-mails. I can tell the difference and I will report every phishing email to the relevant bank/building society/company and authorities.

Site Comment Rules

I like getting comments, when they are worthwhile and appropiate. So if you’re commenting on my site, bear the following in mind:

• Comments should actually be meaningful, worthwhile and relevant to the page/blog entries. It’s not enough to just enough to comment on a random page “Good work there. I signed to your blog rss feed.”
• If you put a web address with your comment, it should NOT be a link to site which contains inappropriate content such as porn, a site that hasn’t been updated for months or a site that is nothing but a glorified ad page. The link should be to a site in English.
• Don’t make your comment nothing but links.
• Comments MUST be in English.
• Comments and any site linked to should not be offensive to followers of any faith, be hate related, sexist, homophobic or similar. Be nice.
• This applies to trackbacks as well. Spammers wont get a free link to their spammy website out of me this way.
• Link requests, if you think I might like a link exchange (and it’s highly unlikely to be honest) use the then contact form.

If you’re thinking of spamming me…

• I use Akismet so any spam will be caught (just like 16,015 that have been caught so far).
• All comments are moderated, that means only I will see it and I’m not interested in your spam. That’s only when I am really bored, normally I just click the “Empty Spam” button and no one sees it.
• Your IP address and ISP are automatically collected. This makes it very easy for me to track you down when you spam me even if you supply a false email address. I can also track you through proxy servers as well so don’t bother trying.
• I’ll send a copy of your spam comment/email to your ISP.

Your IP Address returns as 38.107.179.228 and your ISP/Webhost returns as 38.107.179.228.

How will a spammer know if I am going to track them down? They wont, it depends on how my day is going.

Bear in mind reporting spammers makes me happy. I have already tracked people down and reported them.