Spammers stalk me.

 

Round sign No SPAM

This blog has been filled with details of my dealings with the MySpace HoTrain. Now, spammers have followed me to another venue.

I have a message boards. They can be accessed through my own, personal website.

And, as message boards go, it isn't much. There was only one topic and only four people posted on it--my wife and three of our friends. Mostly just to mock my welcome message.

Apparently, these four people (five if you count me) are enough to garner the attention of spammers for the fly-by-night drug companies. I don't know how they found me. But they found me.

Each and every day for the last week, I have been receiving about 15-30 new topics posted on the board, all with topic names such as Viagra and Lipitor. Click on one of the topics and there is spam asking you to click a link to buy cheap prescription drugs.

Now, while I do think the pharmacuetical companies grossly over charge for their medications, I know that clicking these links would lead not to cheap prescriptions, but probably to spyware and viruses.

What's more, the whopping four people on the board know this too. And they are less likely to click the links than I am.

See, this is why spammers are stupid. Yes, this is a bargain basement message boards that came free with my website, so there is lax security at best. They think, wow, a venue for us to spam our advertising to all the members of the board! But they don't realize that only five people have ever posted on the board, and only one has posted more than once--me. And the last posting activity was in August 2007. So, basically, posting their drug ads on this board is a great big waste of time.

But everyday there is more and more posts. So everyday I have to go in to the board no one uses, delete all the spam, and block all the IP address in fear that someone might stumble on the site, think I approved the post, and click the link resulting in their computer getting fried.

I wish there was a way to send a reverse virus to them and destroy their systems. That would save me a lot of time each day.