Blog Spam Leads to a Surprising Source
Posted by Andrew Brandt | Friday, March 25, 2005 10:15 AM PT
In an intriguing new twist, spammers who post so-called "comment spam" to blogs have begun to use blogging tools themselves to lure people into clicking their links. I recently followed the trail from one of these postings, and it led to a surprising source.
For a while now, spammers have been using automated tools to insert links to their own spam-vertised Web site into the comments areas on blog sites. To combat the problem, blogging software makers and independent programmers have been making tools to filter out these comment spam postings.
One recent morning, I received a note from MT-Blacklist, the comment spam filtering tool we use here at
PCWorld.com to filter these comment spam postings from our own site. The note flagged a potentially spammy comment that was posted to a blog thread I'd written weeks earlier, and prevented it from being visible to the public. However, I could see the comment, which was just a single line of HTML code, linking to a blog hosted by Blogspot.com (a site operated by Google).
Curious, I followed the link back to Blogspot, where I found a blog called Gregory, with a single post, dated from September 1999. The text of that post was a single paragraph cribbed from a document about the Privacy Act, posted on the Web site of the U.S. Government's Office of Management and Budget.
Within the paragraph, the spammer linked to a portion of the text which reads "Privacy Act officers," but the link (shown at right) only extends part of the way across that phrase, so the text of the link itself reads "Privacy Act of."
The link on this page, however, points to a URL on a Web server that hosts advertising content for a company called Adtch.com. Using the phrase "Privacy Act Of" in the URL, that link (shown at left) in turn points to a Web page hosting raunchy pornographic ads for a company that offers "Russian brides" for sale.
The Adtch.com domain is owned by Boris Greenberg; The domain's registration information place the headquarters of the company in Latvia, but I couldn't confirm whether that was true or bogus information.
Greenberg isn't new to the world of porn spamming; He's actually a wanted criminal, who has a U.S. federal warrant out for his arrest based on a 2000 investigation of Web sites that host child pornography.
According to
a 2001 press release from the U.S. Attorney's office in Dallas, Texas, Greenberg and another Webmaster were "charged with Sexual Exploitation of Minors and Distribution of Child Pornography in the April 2000 indictment. Warrants have been issued for their arrest and the United States will seek extradition."
The release goes on to explain that Greenberg "designed, launched, and maintained Web sites that offered pictures and movies of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct." The document claims Greenberg made over $300,000 for selling access to child pornography from 1997 to 1998.
Greenberg also popped up on government radar screens in 2002, when he "hijacked" a Web domain registered by a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Dallas. When Navy Webmasters accidentally failed to renew the domain registration,
Greenberg bought NavyDallas.com and made the domain redirect to a hard core pornography site he hosted. At that time, Greenberg used a Berlin address as his mailing address.
Nobody currently knows the location of Greenberg, but as long as he keeps popping up, trouble seems to follow.
One recent morning, I received a note from MT-Blacklist, the comment spam filtering tool we use here at PCWorld.com to filter these comment spam postings from our own site. The note flagged a potentially spammy comment that was posted to a blog thread I'd written weeks earlier, and prevented it from being visible to the public. However, I could see the comment, which was just a single line of HTML code, linking to a blog hosted by Blogspot.com (a site operated by Google).
Curious, I followed the link back to Blogspot, where I found a blog called Gregory, with a single post, dated from September 1999. The text of that post was a single paragraph cribbed from a document about the Privacy Act, posted on the Web site of the U.S. Government's Office of Management and Budget. 
Wow... the kind of things people would do for money. The kind of stupid things.
He is the Kaiser Soce of the Internet P0rn world!
He seems to remind me of a certain
"" pop star "" when it comes to certain articles.
I feel that men like Boris Greenberg will never be caught until the world unites against the lawless underworld using brute force if nessesary to show criminals the consequences such actions deserve
What I would like to know is; why hasn't the government created grants for people to SUPER VIRUS Child-Porn sites, rendering them useless!!
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