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Even SATAN can't beat the SPAMMERS!

I am being subjected to serious amounts of comment SPAM. Last night there were 205 of them from a single author in India, who is selling "Cialis." The spammer's IP address -- 61.247.228.224 -- is in New Delhi. As a public service I am also providing the contact information (obtained from APNIC) for the registrant of the company name listed in each of the 205 loathsome comments:

Registrant:
Rahul Dutt rahul@infinityinformations.com 8630126
Infinity Informations (P) Ltd.
A-30, Kailash Colony
New Delhi,ND,India 110048

Domain Name:dentalclinicsindia.com

What is it about this damned "Cialis"? Why is it everywhere? I entered the word in Google, which yielded 3,240,000 hits.

Naturally, such a large Google figure over a very stupid word aroused more than my hackles; the data aroused my curiosity. I decided to do a poll, and see how "Cialis" stacked up against some well-known entries. The results, ranked by size, contain a number of surprises (remember, the following are all out-ranked by CIALIS):

Satan 3,130,000
Blogging 3,070,000
George Washington 2,920,000
George Bush 2,690,000
John Kerry 2,500,000
Bill Clinton 2,440,000
Thomas Jefferson 2,210,000
Saddam Hussein 2,130,000
Benjamin Franklin 1,900,000
Abraham Lincoln 1,480,000
Albert Einstein 1,440,000
Homosexuality 1,380,000
Osama bin Laden 1,320,000
Ronald Reagan 1,260,000
Marilyn Monroe 1,230,000
James Madison 1,100,000
Howard Dean 1,040,000
Nick Berg 910,000
Marilyn Manson 830,000
Winston Churchill 756,000
Watergate 620,000
Julius Caesar 587,000
Hillary Clinton 542,000
Adolf Hitler 522,000
Sigmund Freud 334,000
Rasputin 310,000
Charles Manson 198,000
Iran-Contra 174,000
Bisexuality 160,000
Napoleon Bonaparte 158,000
Al Capone 154,000
Monica Lewinsky 150,000
Pol Pot 142,000
Joseph Stalin 123,000
Heterosexuality 121,000
Timothy McVeigh 105,000
Jerry Falwell 94,900
Lee Harvey Oswald 84,200
Idi Amin 69,000
Sun Myung Moon 37,400
Vincent Foster 27,700
Fred Phelps 19,800
Sirhan Sirhan 11,400

I am amazed that all of the above were beaten by "Cialis."

What, you may be asking, is more popular than "Cialis"?

I'm not about to spend all day on this, but I found six examples:

God 58,200,000
Madonna 6,180,000
J. Lo 6,060,000
The Beatles 5,220,000
Jesus Christ 5,090,000
(Hmmmm..... I remember when John Lennon got in trouble for such an out-of-context comparison.)
Allah 3,410,000.
(Don't look now, Mr. Moon God, but Cialis is closing in fast!)

What does this mean to me? At the rate I'm going, I may have to turn off all comments, because MT-Blacklist just isn't stopping the SPAM. But I don't want to do that, because I enjoy getting serious comments.

Maybe I should pray....

UPDATE: My prayers may have been answered. Dean Esmay points out that there's a new version of MT-Blacklist.

Hmmmmm.....

(And I am in the middle of upgrading this blog....)

MORE: I notice in today's news that art museums are now getting gratuitous penis spam -- in the form of exhibits! (Maybe I shouldn't take it so personally.)

Comments

Okay, maybe I'm missing something ... but why does your link for "Moon God" turn up a google search to James Madison??

Just curious ...

brykMantra · June 10, 2004 09:47 AM

Thanks for pointing that out; I fixed the link!

Eric Scheie · June 10, 2004 09:50 AM

One more thing: Did you compare Cialis to the related Viagra? Or rather, did you compare SEARCHES for Viagra?

brykMantra · June 10, 2004 09:53 AM

VIAGRA yields 12 million Google hits. But everyone has heard of Viagra, which is not only a SPAMMER item, but also a common public topic. What bothers me is that this annoyance -- Cialis -- is insignificant and unknown to most people, yet takes up so much Internet bandwidth.

Eric Scheie · June 10, 2004 10:05 AM

If you need help with your upgrade or with Blacklist give me a holler.

Dean Esmay · June 10, 2004 10:30 AM

Homosexuality - 1,380,000
Heterosexuality - 121,000

I thought homosexuals were a minority. Somebody better warn Jerry Falwell about this menace.

Steven Malcolm Anderson the Lesbian-worshipping gun-loving selfish aesthete · June 10, 2004 09:19 PM

Funny to see Dean Esmay here. I just came from Dean's World, and right away I see a link back to him and I see him commenting here. It really is Dean's World!

Steven Malcolm Anderson the Lesbian-worshipping gun-loving selfish aesthete · June 10, 2004 09:23 PM

Conspiracy - 3,800,000

(Hey! You changed the look of your site!)

Steven Malcolm Anderson the Lesbian-worshipping gun-loving selfish aesthete · June 11, 2004 02:42 AM

It's a conspiracy -- headed by Robyn at Sekimori -- and I hope you like it!

Eric Scheie · June 11, 2004 06:32 AM

That's WHY they spam our comments, Eric--for the google hits! Obviously this creep is a great spammer...

Susie · June 16, 2004 02:17 AM

What has Cialis got to do with a Dental site.

And what is this damn Cialis? Mate, I checked this site and has no word as Cialis on it.

And the registrant is also someone else. Remember, before you post any information, make sure you are correct. Since this domain is not owned by anyone by that name and has no Cialis on it. What are you trying to interpert?

Roger · June 29, 2004 02:31 AM

"Roger" is in New Delhi himself, and clearly is either on the side of the spammer or is the spammer himself. The world would be a better place without SPAMMERS.

Here's Roger's current location:

203.101.16.0 - 203.101.31.255
netname: BHARTI-IN
descr: Infrastructer
descr: DSL Haryana Circule
descr: Bharti Infotel Ltd.
descr: 234 , Okhla Phase III
descr: New Delhi
descr: India
country: IN
admin-c: NA40-AP
tech-c: NA40-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-IN-BBIL
status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
changed: techsupport@bhartibroadband.com 20040206
source: APNIC

person: Network Administrator
nic-hdl: NA40-AP
e-mail: techsupport@bhartibroadband.com
address: Bharti Infotel Ltd.
address: ISP Division - Long Distance - Telesonic
address: 234 ,
address: Okhla Ind. Area,
address: Phase III
address: New Delhi,
address: INDIA-110020
phone: +91-11- 51710131
fax-no: +91-11-5171
country: IN
changed: sohan@bhartibroadband.com 20040622
mnt-by: MAINT-IN-BBIL
source: APNIC

And here's the last SPAMMER:

61.247.224.0 - 61.247.239.0
netname: BHARTI-IN
descr: For DSL Customer North
descr: Bharti Broadband Network Ltd.
descr: 234
descr: Okhla Industrial Area
descr: Phase III
descr: Delhi
descr: India
country: IN
admin-c: NA40-AP
tech-c: NA40-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-IN-BBIL
status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
changed: techsupport@bhartibroadband.com 20031113
source: APNIC

As to dentalclinicsindia.com. the registration has been changed. My information is not only correct, but I suspect "Roger" knows more than he allows. Hiding behind bonanzatech.com is pretty lame.

Wanna fess up "Mate"?

Eric Scheie · June 29, 2004 06:25 AM

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