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Spammers are using TinyURL.com to escape spam filters

Posted by mypapit on 28 Mar 2006 in Internet Stuff

I recently found out that besides the new breed of spam bots which emulate human surfing behavior and sporting javascript support. Spammers now developed a new tactic by concealing their url behind TinyURL.com redirection service.

I hope TinyURL administrators will take note of these service abuse, and devise a plan to reduce spammers from using their service to spread their spammy URL around.

For the time being, I’ll be more watchful and configure my anti-spam software to filter out urls that uses TinyURL service. I personally don’t use TinyURL service, and only occasionally surfed to tinyurl addresses when I’m certain it was given by a reputable source (and it must be from a human!)

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1. .o0 Webonomy 0o. Said:
   June 10th, 2006 at 11:50 am

   diese nicht zur Verf?gung stellt gibt also Minuspunkte von meiner Seite! Tinyurl ist ein Webservice, der aus langen URLs kurze URLs erstellt und auf die eigentliche Zieldomain weiterleitet. Praktisch – auch f?rSpammer. Tue Gutes und sprich dar?ber – hat sich wohl auch Google.org gesagt. Ich sage: ein sch?nes Wochenende noch!

2. ShaolinTiger Said:
   March 29th, 2006 at 1:34 pm

   Yeah I experienced this a couple of days ago, my coppermine gallery comments got spammed, a lot of the spam was using tinyurl.com.

3. chengsim Said:
   March 29th, 2006 at 1:50 pm

   hahaha. tinyurl.com reminds me of this source code for Deathball. alright alright. im taking this seriously.

4. .: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :. Said:
   April 8th, 2006 at 1:43 pm

   Did Your Coppermine Gallery (CPG) Get Spammed? Eww Spam..

   Mine did, really it sucks!
   Anyway if yours did too, you can get rid of all the spam in a few seconds, go to your control panel or however you get to phpMyAdmin on your server (or command line MySQL interface), whichever you are comfortable with and run…

5. mypapit (Admin) Said:
   April 8th, 2006 at 7:11 pm

   yeah, i’ve tried to remove the spam url using SQL command in phpMyAdmin interface, works like a charm. Thanks ShaolinTiger :)

6. joojoo Said:
   October 28th, 2006 at 11:41 am

   gotta check out Atomrul.com

   you can even do

   http://atomurl.com?IBM
   above takes you to yahoo finance quote page for IBM

   or

   http://atomurl.com?iraq war
   above takes you to google search to search for “iraq war”

7. Dwayne Said:
   December 10th, 2009 at 2:16 am

   This is an old post but i am doing a new site but what can you do to escape spam filters for a new domain when your intentionally not sending spam?

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