MySpace mail was down over the weekend for many hours. You wonder why. My inbox has been choked this past week with spam from three or four different sources. One is profilewatcher, which we wrote about earlier. The newest is an affiliate for singlesnet.com. The spammer uses several layers of indirection to get by URL filters.

The link in the comments points to a variation of my*.com. One example in my inbox is http://www.myandrevauthier.com. This url redirects to http://alligatorgarred318.info/index.html which in turn redirects to the final http://www.singlesnet.com/?campaign_id=17&keyword=CD9635. The keyword seems to change and possibly the campaign_id too.

The account that sent the comment spam seems perfectly legitimate. Either it was phished -- which Tom is warning about this week -- or some kind of ProfileWatcher virus or trojan is at work. Apparently organized spammers are hard at work and MySpace sues to stop them. How about implementing smarter filters for the stop the spam between lawsuits?

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