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0 pointslnanek214y ago0 comments

> I had almost zero traffic, but the tiny blip on the radar screen my site produced drew scammers like flies.

It's worth pointing out, that if you used some sort of standard back end like Wordpress or some other user content system, there are bots built to search the web for those and post to them automatically. I wouldn't put it past someone to throw in a check for if it is real estate related and handle slightly more advanced back ends like Drupal.

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dabent14y ago

The rental site was home-grown, but scammers still managed to find it. I noticed an ocean-view apartment in Miami for about $300 a month, which seemed odd. After some investigation I learned about scams and began checking for ultra-low rents, etc.

I did have a Pligg site I put up as a quick project and that was a victim of the automated searches for the "submit" page of a Pligg site. Even adding a CAPTCHA didn't help, so I assume offshore workers were adding links manually.

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