Another Interview with a Comment Spammer
Posted by glo on 19 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: Comment Spam
I found another interview with a comment spammer by Chris Pirillo entitled From Texas Hold’em to Texas Tea. The spammer, Todd “Oilman” Friesen, has a SEO company called Oilman Productions (a fitting name for a slimy-slime-bag-spammer’s business). He now claims that he has gone straight but admits that he made a lot of money comment spamming blogs. He also admits that he is an aggressive SEO, meaning he will still do less than ethical tactics in order to get his clients a good position on search engines, Google in particular. The interview can be listened to via WAM or MP3 and worth the time to listen to, though be prepared to be annoyed with this arrogant buffoon strut his stuff. However, he does give kudos to WordPress developers for creating a program that is consistently harder to spam than most blogging programs. He also claims that blog spamming is on its way out but then says the RSS feeds is the next big target for spammers. Chris challenges him on that and it’s still not clear in my mind how the spammers will use our feeds. They are sicko idiots and as long as there is money to be made they will continue to make our online experience less than pleasant.