John Cow dot COM: Bryan Fleming - Blog Spam Whore Extraordinaire
LOL
· 1 year ago
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Steven
· 1 year ago
Spam is also one of the less attractive features about using WordPress as it seems to attract unwanted spam, where most blogs that are self coded, don't seem to get all these random spam posts or trackbacks.
Mr. Rajawang
· 1 year ago
Argghhh I hate spam too! Got 30 spam comments everyday especially P0rn and medicine spam comments.. totally hate it! :evil:
I took a look at some of the sites he has up. I think it's funny how he uses a different picture of a guy or a girl at the top of each blog. He must be pretty clever to bypass that spam filter.
MyBlogLove
· 1 year ago
So, till now we must STOP to interesting to click people who comment bullshit, :evil: and doesn't have relevancy with the posting. :?: i am lucky for being newbie, there just a little blogger or reader come to my blog and do comment. :arrow: not like you...
comment to backlink is not always bad if...... yes, if your comment relevant with the topic. so, there is ethic not written in front of us...
or maybe the SPAM he make just because he can't english well like me... :smile:
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you. - No really I did!
We've got one of his posts on our blog. I figured it was spam when I approved it, but since I wasn't 100% I just cleaned the link.
Asshat people eh?
Kenny
· 1 year ago
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
:D
Tycoon Blogger
· 1 year ago
What happens if someone leaves a comment and their name happens to be “Matt Hanson”, “Allen Taylor”, “Mike Harmon”, “Chris Moran”, “Tim Ramsey”, “Tina Russell”, “Jason Rakowski”, “Aaron Wakling” or “Susan Kishner”? Could you possibly miss some good comments on the blog?
I've been getting one a lot from info@hyperwebenable.com pushing web hosting using your own domain. I already have my own domain! Any good ideas for dealing with these bastards?
Jim
· 1 year ago
Go get'em Cow!
By the way... I just found your site on technorati and... :lol:
What I did was I took off the "DO FOLLOW" thing for my comments and I just deleted that plugin. I hope after deleting it, spammers won't get a part from comments unless of course it doesn't work that way.
Expose this mongrel. Everyone go through your blogs and remove his comments if there are any. Lowest form of scum in the webmaster world: spammers, and scrapers.
Personally I don't run the right kind of niche to get this kind of spam, but I do remove comments if they have a spammy-looking site in the URL.
I'll put money on it that someone has written a peice of software that automates posting comments like above using a different alias and link everytime :evil: So this would result in the work being done automatically which is a right pain in the ass for us webmasters :sad: AKISMET is does do a fantastic job but if someone is posting what looks like an innocent comment then chances are it will get through unless the users ip address or url is blacklisted?
Dennis Bjørn Petersen
· 1 year ago
Awwww...and here I thought I'd just gained five new readers that just happened to find my blog amonger the 1,648,195,453,943 other on technorati :razz:
Let's hope the spambots doesn't find his emails in your post...
Ya, I posted this same thing in the Digital Point forums asking wtf this was. Guess I'm not the only one who got it, lol. I would have approved it, if he didn't comment twice like that, trying to pose as two different people, lol.
I think that jackass actually got me with the first one, but then I saw several more across my 3 blogs. What amazes me is that he was creative enough to think this up, but didn't use that creativity to come up with something productive. If all the ingenious spam tricks were applied to productive sites, the world (wide web) would be a much better place.
Maybe he just hired somebody and just don't know about it :?:
MyBlogLove
· 1 year ago
hi.... good morning.... :smile: its morning in indonesia.... :grin: come on every body..... MOVE on ANTI-SPAM campaign.... where the US President candidates ?? are they anti-SPAM too?? :evil: :evil: :evil: hehe :evil: :evil: sorry, Out Of Topic please do not add me to blacklist SPAMERS :grin: i just wanna say good morning to John Cow Reader specially from Indonesia... :razz:
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Lol. Funny post. I'm part of a small Poker Blogging group, and we often get exactly the same spam comments advertising the latest online casino offers. Very annoying. Especially when their bots go crazy and add 10 comments at once. Oh well.
P.S. I won't be adding your RSS feed to my newsreader. But have asked to be notified of updates via email.
Somehow I find it hard to believe it is just one person...more likely a f.leet of them working as one. Who knows...can't stand these spammers...ugh -Raymond
Estevão Pape
· 1 year ago
This is amazing! there's people o just don't know how to do it!!! if you don't its better to stay quiet than to do this !$"%"!!! Well what can we do rather than have a laugh at this stupid guy fooling himself... thanks to John Cow on is posts and content!!!
OMG! What a coincidence! I just read this post earlier today and right now (midnight) he just wrote the post. At first I was happy about another comment, but then I remembered your post. I went back to your blog to check it out and see if it matched up, sure enough it did! Here is the exact message:
"I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you. Chris Moran" URL: "everydaymarketingideas.com"
Thanks so much John Cow! This was incredible useful, and I'm thankful that you took the time to write this post. Every person who realizes this the better, this guy shouldn't be able to profit from spamming.
I found your site after doing a search for some comments that “Chris Moran” left on our site...
I don't think it's the same person. It could be multiple idiots seeing what he/she's doing, then going, "Hey, let me try this technique (since I can't afford real advertising)."
I like the way they use first and last names. What person would post their first and last names in a blog comment, anyway?
Nice graphics! I like the car.
Mohamed Bhimji
· 1 year ago
JC - I love it! One of my sites e-mails had 50,000 e-mails in the inbox. 49,995 were spam. In fact, the amount of e-mails pushed my site into the red and it was suspended. :twisted:
I love it when spammers get exposed or they get fined. You obviously went to a lot of work to expose this guy! Good job!
I found your site on google while searching for this Matt Hanson guy, and only read this post. Keep up the average work. I did not add your RSS feed to any reader, and will probably not read any more posts from you. (That hurts, right?) But seriously, I was googling for the guy's name, whose comment was actually caught by Akismet (yay!) - As an occasional blogger, I don't get a lot of traffic on my blog (*hint*) and therefore, treasure any commentators that spend a few seconds on my blog, which makes people like me a prime target for spammers like Matt, who use what I have come to call "automatic electronic ego massagers". I was going to write a post about it, but since you have already done that, so I'll go back to work now :-D
Thanks for this post - I was almost hoodwinked by one of these phoney comments. Akismet did pick the comment up, but I thought it was a mistake. Now I know that Akismet is pretty damn sharp.
If Akismet thinks something is spam - it most probably is.
@ Alex - Don't count on Akismet being right. There is a serious false positive with it. For example, if you were to make somebody mad they could mark your comment as spam and that would prevent you from leaving comments on any blog. I wrote about this back in December when it happened to me and it turned out that I was far from alone in this experience.
I'm glad to see that someone else is on to him. I realized it was spam when he hit my blog, but didn't realize it was an alias. I also did a little writeup, inspired by his spam, about the ethics of spamming (link is above.)
Daniel
· 1 year ago
What? You're giving away Plegming's e.mail addresses? Next thing that we know, you'll post something like this:
Bryan C Fleming (b Dec 1971) 41565 Arthur Ct Belleville, MI 48111-3406 734-697-3208 (land-line) 734-564-1671 (mobile)
Daniel
· 1 year ago
A Wired story from '97 suggest that Phlegming has been in the business of spamming for quite a while:
Meanwhile, other links are to pages that have Phlegming later posturing as an opponent of spam.
Marco Lombardini
· 1 year ago
I just received a comment on my blog from "Tim Ramsey" a quick search revealed the true reason for his post. Luckily my Akismet tossed it were it belonged, to the spam box.
Thanks for the expose! He (Jason Rakowski) almost got me until I did a little Googling and realized he'd made the same innocent sounding blog post all across the net. Got to love it.
Jason
· 1 year ago
While you guys are posting addresses and phone numbers, I hope that it's the same person doing the spamming, and not some guy who's unfortunate to have the same name. :sad:
Marco Lombardini
· 1 year ago
Just received another spam comment this time from a "Mike Harmon"
On this site he claims to be working towards a CPA. It includes a photo undoubtedly not his own.
May C
· 1 year ago
Thanks, Marco Lombardini for the heads up on this accountingtips4you.com. Just got a comment/question that Akismet identified as spam. In the comment, he was asking about where I got the theme for my blog (not my palmdiscovery one) but another wordpress.com one that should have been obvious since you can't import themes in the wordpress.com blogs.
These spammers are getting smarter. And then another spammer was sending spam that was related to what my site was about but after reading it, it was obvious it was spam. They just don't stop.
I was look for more information on this jackass. Akismet caught the comment, but I wanted to hunt his info down. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting.
Matt
· 1 year ago
Yeah, new to blogging (about a month), I was suspicious of ole Mark Harmon's compliment post. Thanks for confirming my suspicion!
—Matt—
Patrick
· 1 year ago
Hey John,
I received this in my spam box today along with the accompanying links.
"Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road."
Allen Taylor
I was suspicious and checked out the linked site and noted that the format of the articles seemed like a skimmer but a little slicker. Checking further I found your article. Bingo! Now we know that he is still out there.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Patrick
Tim Manni
· 1 year ago
John,
I found your blog after googling "Acountingtips4you.com." That link accompanied a generic comment by one "Mike Harmon" left on my company's blog -- blog.hsh.com. What's hilarious is you mentioned another one of his alias' "Aaron Wakling," we def. got a message from him once too.
I really enjoyed this post and I'll be back again.
Thanks,
Tim
S Martini
· 12 months ago
He hit two of my sites. Almost had me fooled. Thanks for posting this.
bob@extractor.com
· 11 months ago
Uhh you do know that this guy was the founder of extractor marketing over a decade ago? Same software, different medium.
Rob Fleming
· 9 months ago
Sadly enough this F%&King scum bag.... who is of no relation to me has graduated to copyright infringement along with spamming and his other long list of dubious online practices. While running a backlink report on a website i am promoting i came across a website "addictionrecoveryblog-com" that had ripped off one of my promotion copywritten articles published on Ezarticles. i ran a whois it seems that there is a long list of crappy scrap sites this guy owns. After viewing the actual site my link software report I found that this POS had merely scraped my article which was published on 2/2/2009 on Ezarticles, and posted it on his blog site without my "By line" wrapped around his adsense ads!
At this point i have contacted Ezarticles and Google to report he copyright violation, and hopefully i will win a small victory over this retards theft of my hard work! Any ideas on how to legally retaliate against this site will be truly appreciated!
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doesn't have relevancy with the posting. :?:
i am lucky for being newbie, there just a little blogger or reader come to my blog and do comment. :arrow:
not like you...
comment to backlink is not always bad if......
yes, if your comment relevant with the topic.
so, there is ethic not written in front of us...
or maybe the SPAM he make just because he can't english well like me... :smile:
What ever, I HATE SPAM!!!
stop SPAM! :idea:
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Asshat people eh?
:D
Could you possibly miss some good comments on the blog?
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I've been getting one a lot from info@hyperwebenable.com pushing web hosting using your own domain. I already have my own domain! Any good ideas for dealing with these bastards?
By the way... I just found your site on technorati and... :lol:
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Personally I don't run the right kind of niche to get this kind of spam, but I do remove comments if they have a spammy-looking site in the URL.
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So this would result in the work being done automatically which is a right pain in the ass for us webmasters :sad:
AKISMET is does do a fantastic job but if someone is posting what looks like an innocent comment then chances are it will get through unless the users ip address or url is blacklisted?
Let's hope the spambots doesn't find his emails in your post...
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I got a matt hanson comment yesterday creativeadvertisingblog.com, whois shows as bryan fleming.
Thanks for the heads up JC.
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good morning.... :smile:
its morning in indonesia.... :grin:
come on every body.....
MOVE on ANTI-SPAM campaign....
where the US President candidates ??
are they anti-SPAM too?? :evil: :evil: :evil:
hehe :evil: :evil:
sorry, Out Of Topic
please do not add me to blacklist SPAMERS :grin:
i just wanna say good morning to John Cow Reader specially from Indonesia...
:razz:
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-Raymond
thanks to John Cow on is posts and content!!!
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I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…
Seems like this is popular on the internet....
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Thanks so much John Cow! This was incredible useful, and I'm thankful that you took the time to write this post. Every person who realizes this the better, this guy shouldn't be able to profit from spamming.
GREAT STUFF!
Sincerely, Jake Cohen
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I wanted to take part in the dofollow movement as I've been making good use of it myself. However, all the spammer could be bothered to write was:
> Thank you.
> hhttp://www.xyz.com
How can he possibly expect me to approve such a useless comment?
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I don't think it's the same person. It could be multiple idiots seeing what he/she's doing, then going, "Hey, let me try this technique (since I can't afford real advertising)."
I like the way they use first and last names. What person would post their first and last names in a blog comment, anyway?
Nice graphics! I like the car.
I love it when spammers get exposed or they get fined. You obviously went to a lot of work to expose this guy! Good job!
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(That hurts, right?)
But seriously, I was googling for the guy's name, whose comment was actually caught by Akismet (yay!) - As an occasional blogger, I don't get a lot of traffic on my blog (*hint*) and therefore, treasure any commentators that spend a few seconds on my blog, which makes people like me a prime target for spammers like Matt, who use what I have come to call "automatic electronic ego massagers". I was going to write a post about it, but since you have already done that, so I'll go back to work now :-D
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If Akismet thinks something is spam - it most probably is.
All the best,
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Meanwhile, other links are to pages that have Phlegming later posturing as an opponent of spam.
You can add mydebtreliefblog.com to your list!
Thanks John
Site: accountingtips4you.com.
On this site he claims to be working towards a CPA. It includes a photo undoubtedly not his own.
These spammers are getting smarter. And then another spammer was sending spam that was related to what my site was about but after reading it, it was obvious it was spam. They just don't stop.
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—Matt—
I received this in my spam box today along with the accompanying links.
"Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road."
Allen Taylor
I was suspicious and checked out the linked site and noted that the format of the articles seemed like a skimmer but a little slicker. Checking further I found your article. Bingo! Now we know that he is still out there.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Patrick
I found your blog after googling "Acountingtips4you.com." That link accompanied a generic comment by one "Mike Harmon" left on my company's blog -- blog.hsh.com. What's hilarious is you mentioned another one of his alias' "Aaron Wakling," we def. got a message from him once too.
I really enjoyed this post and I'll be back again.
Thanks,
Tim
At this point i have contacted Ezarticles and Google to report he copyright violation, and hopefully i will win a small victory over this retards theft of my hard work!
Any ideas on how to legally retaliate against this site will be truly appreciated!
Thanks