[PLUG-TALK] wiki-spam response

[Gregg Berkholtz]

I doubt they'll even read that far.

If I had the time, I'd put together a script which did a reverse on their IP. If the IP's reverse DNS ends in .edu:
 "...$University has detected your attempts to obtain fake term papers. The Dean would like to speak with you regarding this, please stop by the office tomorrow morning. Your only hope of still passing this class hangs in the balance, don't be late, again..."

If the reverse shows as an ISP, GeoIP the source, find the closest university, and then...well..you get the idea :-)

- Gregg Berkholtz
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On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> Yet another wiki spammer peddling fake term papers.  Captcha and
> such does not work when the links are placed by real english
> speaking humans (in the Phillipines, from the IP address).  So
> rather than delete their spam page, I changed it:
> 
> http://wiki.dirvish.com/index.cgi?Project101
> 
> Here's what I wrote:
> 
> - If you got to this page, you are probably following a link placed
> - on this wiki by criminal Asians selling fraudulent term papers
> - (probably in the Phillipines).  If you are a student seeking to
> - shortcut your education, we have your internet address.  We can
> - track you down, and get you expelled or suspended.
> - 
> - Please get an honest education. You face a difficult struggle for
> - survival in the coming economically depressed decades.  Without
> - a proper education (and not just fake credentials) you will
> - probably not be able to hold a job, and end up in the gutter.
> - If the economy tanks badly enough, that is a death sentence.
> 
> I will repair defaced pages, but I will cut and paste that into
> the spammer-created ones.
> 
> 
> Keith
> 
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