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theoldwolf ([personal profile] theoldwolf) wrote2012-11-11 03:12 pm
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Massive spam attack from citysex.com

In the last week my journal has been inundated with spam comments from multiple bot accounts. The spam message is always the same:

Hey This is hard for me because I have never done anything like this.. but I have a huge crush on you. I have never been able to tell you for reasons which you would quickly identify as obvious if you knew who this was. I'm really attracted to you and I think you would be wanting to get with *Read FULL Card Here* http://hornylove.unudulmaz.bork [link obfuscated]

The URL redirects to a porn site being run by citysex.com - the WHOIS info is below.

[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[whois.verisign-grs.com]
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
   Domain Name: CITYSEX.COM
   Registrar: ENOM, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.enom.com
   Referral URL: http://www.enom.com
   Name Server: DNS5.TNCSERVERS.NET
   Name Server: DNS6.TNCSERVERS.NET
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Updated Date: 08-dec-2011
   Creation Date: 06-jan-1999
   Expiration Date: 06-jan-2013



Today's bot accounts were sundzregmemi, owenoo9, wenawe, and dopentingvil. The bots are regularly reported to LiveJournal, and they seem to be working to delete them quickly, but the flood continues.

Things like this are more an annoyance than anything else - I've reported the abuse to Enom, not really hoping that they can do anything about it, or care to, but I've done all I can.

I just wondered if anyone on my F-list has been plagued by similar messages?



EDIT: Based on the consensus expressed in the commentary below, I changed my comment status to "friends only," which stopped the spam cold. I don't like having to do this, but it saves me the constant cleanup.

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