Email spammers use blogspot against filters

by Brian Turner

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Blogspot URLs are being used in a new deluge of spam in an attempt to circumvent anti-spam filters. Until Blogger open communications for spam reporting, this problem is just going to continue.

There’s nothing new about email spam - especially when the email spam often carries an affiliate URL.

Over the past few days, however, there’s been a flood of spam using blogspot installs as the promotional URL - in order to try and circumvent anti-spam filters.

A click on the link and javascript embedded in the blogspot install then redirects the user via affiliate URLs.

The problem is that blogspot appears to be a more trusted domain - making it easier for this new flood of emails to escape filtering by common email anti-spam applications.

The process appears automated, with a wide range of random blog names set up as blogspot subdomains.

Unfortunately, Blogger has never been one to have open communications - despite the fact that Blogger has suffered continually from spam installs.

Blogger - owned by Google - has attempted to address the issue of spam by leaving a “flag this” in the default template.

However blogspot installs have long had a problem with spammers simply adding their own redirects which means the spam flag is never seen.

The frustrating point is that because of this, there is no simple way to report spam to Blogger and help them remove this crap from their servers.

Earth to Google - open up communications in Blogger, and stop relying on the anti-spam flag on installs as the primary method of tackling spam, as it’s not working.

In the meantime, inboxes across the internet are filling up with offers for cheap autocad and Windows software, thanks to the unwarranted trust being placed on the blogspot domain - a domain which has become a heaven to spammers, but remains closed to communications to help it seriously fight this problem.

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