punished by spammers D'Oh!

[mrchris]

not sure if anyone here is operating a 'url shrinking' service but i thought i would see and give a 'heads up' seeing ive just had 3 sites 'blacklisted / suspended' due to some spammers abusing the service.

i know these type of sites do come at a risk but ive had them running for 2 years without a problem until this week.

if you are running this type of service? try and validate the links against the 'anti-spam' DB before you allow them to become available through on your site(s) as this will save on unwanted emails.

[animesh]

I am new to this problem and could not understood what you want to suggest. Please explain it in detail.

thank you

[mrchris]

with url shrinking services it basically re-writes the link to something like 'yourdomain.com/fgdtgd' rather then 'spam.com/morespam.html' its good for places like twitter & youtube with t.co / youtu.be.
it opens up the door to be abused which is what happened and had 2 sites 'blacklisted' and there my host closed the accounts given they were on a shared hosting server which affected their i.p address.
miniurl.in / mini-url.in

it was an obvious outcome........maybe a 'heads-uo' for others running such services.

[animesh]

oh.. it means peopel use the servics like tinyurl.com to rewrite the original url of their Spam site and then post it to other sites.

[saliha]

Reaalyy this is some thing new i am coming across.Due to the increase in the use of internet, daily new types of problem are coming.Thanks for sharing the info.We should be aware of this type of facts.

[Ace]

I had a similar issue 3 years back with SPAMMERS. I just shutdown the site, because i did not want to deal with hassles.

[Host.co.in]

I would suggest you to discuss this issue with your web hosting provider and ask them to block these spammers from visiting your website.

[JohnnySaur]

Just to boost their page rankings some site use this technique to spread their link to other sites.

[techpageseo]

Spamming is very hard problem to solve checking urls against 'anti-spam' DBis the best solution