We said we might have cut off our guestbook spammer today. (Missed an episode? Catch up at this blog entry.) And so, it seems, we have. Here's the email we received from Peaclick, the second company that our spammer was being paid by, this afternoon:
The affiliate was removed from our network yesterday evening after findwhat contacted us, now he has some other PPC [pay per click] listing on this domain.
all his money was forfeited.
He was russian, we have no more details of him, his profile was filled with x'es
We are sorry for this problem, we do not condone spamming and we actively remove such affiliates from our program
Our thanks to Peaclick and to findwhat for their quick action. And we bless the decision by Tim Berners-Lee that one should be able to do "View Source" for any web page. We'd never had tracked this guy down if we were trying to reverse engineer a compiled program. We'll see where "Loki" has gone next. Will we track him down? Well, the week is young..
