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!)
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?
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”
yeah, i’ve tried to remove the spam url using SQL command in phpMyAdmin interface, works like a charm. Thanks ShaolinTiger :)
hahaha. tinyurl.com reminds me of this source code for Deathball. alright alright. im taking this seriously.
Yeah I experienced this a couple of days ago, my coppermine gallery comments got spammed, a lot of the spam was using tinyurl.com.