Administrative notice

[rolanni]

Because of the high number of identical spam that has hit this journal over the last two days from registered LJ users, all posting the exact same message* to years' old journal post, and also because I'm sick to death of deleting the damned things, marking the perpetrator as a spammer, and reporting himorher to LJ admin, I have reset the reply permissions on this journal.

Only people who are my LJ "friends" may now comment here.

I regret the inconvenience.

Edited to add:  Going to "Friends Only" seems to have been futile.  I received six more of these stupid things on the overnight, attached to journal entries from 2006 and 2007.  The fact that journal entries from 2006 and 2007 exist is kinda scary in itself. . .

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*  The message, with final URL redacted:

  Hey This is hard for me because I have never done anything like this..
  but I have a huge crush on you. I have never been able to tell you for
  reasons which you would quickly identify as obvious if you knew who this
  was. I'm really attracted to you and I think you would be wanting to get
  with *Read FULL Card Here*

Comments

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

I've been getting those too. Getting ready to shift my settings as well.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Honestly, you'd think some people don't have lives. What's the payoff? Oh, wait. Maybe the payoff's is those folks clueless enough to click on the redacted URL?

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

The payoff is that your computer gets infected with their virus, which turns it into a zombie spam source. That's where all those p3n1s enlargement, money laundering and still farther virus spams have been coming from in the past decade or so. The spammers' own computers have been blocked off the 'net for years, so they've had to come up with this alternative.

Just for no real reason at all, here's a list of the worst spammers in the world. Our eljay spammer is likely on this list:
www(dot)spamhaus(dot)org/rokso/