Why Do Spammers Continue to Spam Although Their Site Is Shut Down
It makes not a lick of sense to me. My near month end tallies show that I have received about 50 pieces of spam (give or take) across my 2 blogs. Sometime earlier this month, I’ve finally decided that each piece of comment spam I receive, I plan to report it to their ISP and their domain host.
But in trying to enforce my new self imposed rule, I’ve found that 99% of the sites have already been shut down by their host. So, why then, do spammers continue to spam for a website that is um…non-existant? It’s search engine suicide at best and it doesn’t seem very cost effective to me having to change hosts every couple weeks as people continue to report them.
I really would like to interview a spammer. I promise I’d be cordial and I wouldn’t lunge across cyberspace and strangle anyone – promise. I really just want to know how a spammer’s mind operates.
January 31st, 2005 at 4:05 pm
Did you see the interview with one in the Register today? Interview with a link spammer I think Matt linked it too..
January 31st, 2005 at 4:06 pm
Sweet! Thanks Tom
January 31st, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Okay, I just finished reading the article and I take back what I said – I would have lunged across cyber space and smacked him up but good.