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Sunday, February 5, 2012

I'm being 'spammed'


"Sweet Deva at ronjoewhite" left a post on my blog reading list - I read it and went to their home page and thought I would subscribe to their blog - then ....... I got hit with eight simultaneous blog posts some that were hyperlinked to porn sites .... that's when I tried to get rid of them.

I have (hopefully) managed to remove them from my reading list. They are simply a spamming site using a blog front to go fishing for readers and when you subscribe you get hit with all these hyperlinked posts that re-direct you to other sites (some of them not very nice!)

I notice  "socalbloggersince2009.blogspot.com". is also on my list - I think I'll delete them as well!


KPTP also wrote - 
The same appeared on my Blog list.  I removed him from my blog feed list - where it appeared as something like "socalbloggersince2009.blogspot.com". The original was someone who followed me and I followed him. He then took a rest and has just popped up again, but seems to have been hacked?
driversuz also has commented:
I have him too, but I can't find him on my reading list, so I can't delete him.  
Latenightguy added:
I also had that site show up in my reading list. Somehow the person (Ron) who formerly had a blog called 'The Old Geezer" changed his URL to the newronjoewhite.blogspot.com and his new page is diverting to spam type advertising pages. I don't know if he installed a new gadget or template which contain malware or what, but I deleted his blog from my reading list and blogroll. Problem solved

So, look out people for unsolicited visits from  "Sweet Deva at ronjoewhite" and "socalbloggersince2009.blogspot.com" in your reading list

4 comments:

LindaG said...

Ouch.

Thanks for the heads up, John!

Cindy@NorthofWiarton said...

Thanks for making us aware, John ! I have a website on my reading list who had spam, and blogger won't let me delete them, as I keep trying. There has been something going around on Twitter as well the past couple of days. What is wrong with people? I wish they would leave others alone, but then that wouldn't be the way of the World, now would it? :( .

Gerry Adams said...

Hi John, I am "Late Night Guy" from the forum. Here is Ron's real new URL: http://socalbloggersince2009.blogspot.com/ That old one was apparently taken over by a spammer who is using it now.

Anonymous said...

Hi John

Thanks for the warning. I'm trying to fix the problem with blogger.

~Ron