Phishing spammers stole my post
Spam fuckers trying to steal your WordPress account.
I didn’t want to spend time writing a post like this today, but it’s nice to post a warning to all my fellow bloggers out there.
The spammers are getting more and more rude. Now they stole my post! Not only a picture or two, but the whole post! They stole it and published it in 3 different websites.
Once some blogger asked me why I watermark my photos: Some bloggers don’t like it when they see a post and the photos are watermarked. Well, that’s why: because people steal your text and your photos to market their own products. I’m not getting paid to blog, I’m not earning money by blogging and I don’t want other people to steal my shit to try to generate revenue for themselves.
Not only are these websites trying to generate revenue for themselves, they are also trying to steal your password & your WordPress account: In order to comment on the websites questioned, you need to log in. The log in looks exactly like the ordinary WordPress login (see illustration SpamFuckers01.jpg), but it’s not.
They’re trying to get you to log in, and by doing so they successfully get your log in details (your username and password).
The spammers use WordPress.org as a platform, but I looked up the owners of the websites and all 3 sites are hosted through singlehop.com – a site famous for spam.
So, if you encounter this problem, make sure that you don’t leave any comments or try to log in.
It looks like the official WordPress site, but it’s not. They are trying to redirect you to their site and steal your password.
The good news is: WordPress’ spam filter stopped them!
WOW! I am new at blogging (Dec. 2011) and I still don’t know the in’s and out of it. Thanks for the warnings.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
July 29, 2012 at 16:45
The akismet spam filter usually takes care of most of it.
July 29, 2012 at 18:47
Thanks for the headsup Cardinal! Will stay vigilant. Cheers!
July 29, 2012 at 16:55
Thank you for the info! Sorry that they got some of your stuff.
July 29, 2012 at 17:10
They stole my last post about biking in Oslo. Here’s one of their websites (I added space in their website adress so that they won’t get any trackbacks from my blog):
cursedefinition. radioheva. net/919/trail-biking-in-oslo-cardinal-guzman/
July 29, 2012 at 18:09
What a pain . . .
July 29, 2012 at 19:02
This happened to Rommel (http://sophomorejinx.wordpress.com/) last month. Someone plgiarized every word and picture of one of his posts and reposted it under their blog, translating everything into their language. He discovered the theft by happenstance. A number of us followers helped him to convince them to delete the page, grow some balls and write their own posts.
I’d rather not watermark my images. I already take some steps to make them appear to be of good quality on my blog while actually not being as crisp as the commercial source image but I may have to start watermarking everything now.
What a lowdown dirty shame!
July 29, 2012 at 20:22
Yes, it’s shameful, or like Rommel puts it:
The spammers that stole my post seems to be a combined phishing/marketing website. There’s lots of posts there, but I assume they have stolen all of them.
I’ll keep watermarking my images. I didn’t watermark the photo on my last post, but they’ve been “decent” enough to name the source. If I email them to complain then my email will probably be bombarded by them afterwards, so I’ll just leave it…
July 29, 2012 at 21:14
Can’t we report them to someone? Anyone? The Gods of blogging? Oy vey!
August 1, 2012 at 22:59
It ‘s absolutely bloody disgusting what these low-life spammers will do to get good material to use for their own gain. They obviously don’t have any creative skills themselves and so have to drop to these levels. Poor sods. Thanks for the warning, I shall keep a fast eye out from now on.
July 29, 2012 at 21:25
Imagine if they put all the energy & creativity they use for spamming into something positive instead: then there would be no need for them to spam.
July 30, 2012 at 07:53
I have found the wordpress handle on spam really good. I often look at posts in my spam folder and wonder if it really is spam, but then when I look at the site, you can tell it is. Great post will make sure I am more vigilant as well.
July 29, 2012 at 22:14
Yes, the akismet spamfilter works pretty well (too good sometimes).
Today they stole my post (again) and posted it on a new site, but this time they really fucked up because they are also using the Disney World trademark, so I sent the lawyers at Disney an email. I can’t stop these guys, but Disney can.
July 30, 2012 at 12:11
wow, thanks for the heads up! had no idea, geez, despicable
July 30, 2012 at 00:38
OMG!
that is horrid.
Thanks for the warning.
I had a horrible expreience on facebook….(but that is another story).
Gav.
July 30, 2012 at 03:46
Would love to hear the Facebook nightmare story
July 30, 2012 at 07:55
Oh apparently Facebook feels entitled to your intellectual property – for instance, if you upload a picture on to facebook, since you aren’t paying them to use their service they feel like they should be allowed to use any of the pictures in any way they see fit – that’s why I removed my pictures from their servers. I understand they may still have copies some where and that irks me to no end but what can I do? A friend of mine said that one of his friend’s had her pictures used in an advertisement on facebook without her consent or prior knowledge and she was not compensated in any way – she was just clicking through facebook and all of a sudden her face popped up on an ad for something and she was like umm hey wait that’s me! Not cool.
August 2, 2012 at 19:55
Thanks for the heads up! I once had someone steal a photo of mine, as me as the main subject. They cropped my head off, then, then put the head of a certain hostage at the time on my body!!! I was appalled and disgusted! I emailed them and contacted FB. This guy told me that he found the image on Google therefore it’s free to use! What a dolt. Also, we both happened to be in the same group for the freedom of said hostage, I asked him in that group where his morals and respect are for this hostage. That by chopping and adding a new head is an utter disgrace to this hostage and family! Oh, was I ever p-oed!
July 30, 2012 at 05:27
I had my head cropped off in India: I asked some random guy to take a photo of me and a bunch of Indians: when I developed the film later I had a picture of all of us, but with no heads!
July 30, 2012 at 07:56
That’s absolutely awful. So, how did you find out about them? Anyway to keep a check manually?
July 30, 2012 at 07:20
I found pingbacks in my spam folder, so I decided to check it out (to see if it was legit pingbacks) and voila: I found my own post on 3 different websites!
July 30, 2012 at 07:58
~runs off to check the spam folder~
July 30, 2012 at 08:07
Douchebags. But I have to compliment WordPress on their blocking tools. I too have noticed they have stoned some of these bottom-feeders right in their tracks when I have reviewed my spam & pingbacks.
July 31, 2012 at 14:46
Yes, Akismet spam blocker is a good tool, but it’s important to check it often. Today I found a comment there from a reader, and it wasn’t spam.
August 5, 2012 at 15:47
WoW! What a bloody nightmare… Thanks for the heads up.
Really sad…
August 1, 2012 at 22:56
These people are disgusting :\ thanks for a heads up!
August 2, 2012 at 19:57
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Cardinal, thanks for the warning. Sad to see all is not good and light in the blogosphere.
August 11, 2012 at 16:22