I recently moved my blog to the new domain, so I want to do everything I can to encourage interaction with my readers. I don’t want to delete any legitimate messages by mistake! But I also don’t want to expose my readers to spam.

Your article helped me determine that several seemingly legitimate comments were in fact spam. Helps tremendously knowing there are creditable sources looking into these websites and IP’s.

Thanks for doing so much detective work!

Hi DenKer, thanks a lot for your comment, and for refering my article on your website 🙂

This article is a first attempt to analyse some typical spam messages that I received

You are right to say that Hairstylesvip and its fellow websites such as Ifashionstyles, Cravefreebies, Zolucky etc…are part of the same cluster

Apparently, the strategy of this cluster is the following :

– rely upon millions of spam messages sent all over internet, to spread and gain visibility. WordPress sites with no spam protections are a good target
– take orders for consumer goods sold at a price much higher than their real value
– use drop shipping on a large scale
– hide their real identity by all available means (proxies,…)

I plan to write a much more detailed article about this, when I have the time, to help narrow down and understand better this “business”

Cheers