Spam Blogs
Well, if this doesn’t beat all. Spammers have a new trick: create fake blogs, then steal blog post text from real blogs, and then load the blogs with ads for ringtones, pharmaceuticals, porn, and others spam commerce sites.
I found out about this by doing a Google blog search on the title of my last blog post, “Japanese Green Pheasant,” to see who else may have blogged on the bird. To my surprise, my own post appeared–three times. One was the original, and two more were spam plagiarists. Only a few lines of text are stolen, but it’s still theft, and still it’s spammers using my work to sell their crap.
Looking up other titles, I’ve found more of my posts stolen as well. So far, all the spam blogs I’ve found (and no, I won’t link to them) are on “yahoo-blogs.com”–but don’t be fooled, it’s not really Yahoo. A spammer apparently got ahold of that domain name, and uses it just for spamming.
Jeeze, they don’t miss a trick, do they?