Who Are The Spammers?
Spammers have no concern for the law and for the most part are totally anonymous and beyond the reach of the legal system. They falsify WHOIS data, open hosting accounts in fictitious names and, more often than not, there is a total lack of contact information on any of the sites they publish. If that wasn’t enough to throw you of the scent and you actually managed to track a spammer down, you would probably find they were located in Russia, Romania or some other country where any legal recourse would be completely impractical. The DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act only applies within the US, so if the spammer is operating outside the US the act won’t apply. The Tools of the Trade Splogging: Spammers and Black hat SEOs have their own version of blogs often referred to as Splogs or Spam Blogs. Splogs are created to get other sites indexed and increase their search engine ranking in order to: • Promote affiliated websites. • Artificially Increase Adsense earnings • Create backlinks a
