But coming back to your comment about where spam originates from : Look at email spam, and statistics from spamhaus - Of the top spammers in the world, four are Russian, one Russian American, 3 North American, one from Israel and one from Hong Kong. In terms of spam origin, the US tops the list.

And an interesting sidelight - because of the laws in the US, and general tightening down by ISP’s and service providers, US spammers use either compromised PC’s, or servers located in other countries where the laws are lax - that includes China, Russia and Latin America.

Not to mention that over 80% of the spam relates to credit cards, porn, drugs and the like being promoted to the US, from US providers - other nationals aren’t eligible to buy.

Back now to the spam you get on the blog. Sure, you might have huge percentages from other location ip’s - but have you followed through to the sites they link to, and checked out what’s on offer? I’d bet it’s US spam, camouflaged through proxies / other means to seem as though it’s from overseas.

Mike

Just out of curiosity, I collected the list of spam messages I got over the last 5 days - copied them to a text file, have the zip up on my blog site. If you’re interested, the link is here : http://www.2cworth.com/files/spamlist.zip

No analysis yet, but the first impression is of US targeted offers.

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