Bryan Fleming - Blog Spam Whore Extraordinaire
Spam spam spam, if there’s one thing nobody likes, its spam. Unfortunately some people thrive by bothering, pestering and misleading others. Bryan Fleming is one of those people. Yes, a Blog Spam Whore Extraordinaire in fact, who can’t help himself but to post the same old comment on any blog he can find, whilst using at least ten different aliases for himself. We say at least ten, because we got tired trying to find more of his bullshit comments.
We’re willing to make a bet with you guys that at least 80% of you has had the following comment in one of your blog posts, and we’ve seen plenty of bloggers reply to the comment, all tricked into believing this was an actual interested visitor:
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Some bloggers get extra lucky and get two at the same time!
So what does Mr Fleming do it for? Probably for getting backlinks to his network of sites, thus increasing PR and selling links (in the footers), which just happen to look like more spam links (loans and mortgages etc) and making a few pennies with Adsense.
Nothing wrong with making a few extra bob online, but if you’re clever enough to come up with a “comment” that gets through the AKISMET spam filter, why are you silly enough to use the same line over and over and even leaving those duplicate comments on the same blog posts? And what’s with the pretending to be someone else, every time you leave that comment?
A sample of the sites we found that are owned by Brian “Schizo” Fleming:
- http://www.everydaymarketingideas.com/
- http://www.directmarketingnewsline.com/
- http://www.goodcustomerserviceblog.com/
- http://www.easynegotiationtechniques.com/
- http://www.personalfinanceblogarticles.com/
- http://www.investingworldtoday.com/
- http://www.estateplanningcareer.com/
- http://www.businessmanagementlife.com/
- http://www.why-outsource.com/
- http://www.productivityplanner.com/
Spam is bad, bryan_fleming@hotmail.com / bfleming98@gmail.com. Surely you wouldn’t want your email address online and indexed by spambots so they start bombarding you with useless and time-consuming crap? We all spend countless hours a month wading through the spam box to see if we didn’t accidentally miss a real comment because of people like you. Anyway, we’ve blocked “Matt Hanson”, “Allen Taylor”, “Mike Harmon”, “Chris Moran”, “Tim Ramsey”, “Tina Russell”, “Jason Rakowski”, “Aaron Wakling”, “Susan Kishner” and many more of your non-existent clones, and we hope that our diligent readers will have a look at their comment section to chuck your comments right in the bin, where they belong.
Oh, and thanks for being the inspiration for today’s post, we couldn’t have done it without you.
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Spam is also one of the less attractive features about using WordPress as it seems to attract unwanted spam, where most blogs that are self coded, don’t seem to get all these random spam posts or trackbacks.
Argghhh I hate spam too! Got 30 spam comments everyday especially P0rn and medicine spam comments.. totally hate it!
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I took a look at some of the sites he has up. I think it’s funny how he uses a different picture of a guy or a girl at the top of each blog. He must be pretty clever to bypass that spam filter.
So, till now we must STOP to interesting to click people who comment bullshit,
and
doesn’t have relevancy with the posting.
i am lucky for being newbie, there just a little blogger or reader come to my blog and do comment.
not like you…
comment to backlink is not always bad if……
yes, if your comment relevant with the topic.
so, there is ethic not written in front of us…
or maybe the SPAM he make just because he can’t english well like me…
What ever, I HATE SPAM!!!
stop SPAM!
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you. - No really I did!
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We’ve got one of his posts on our blog. I figured it was spam when I approved it, but since I wasn’t 100% I just cleaned the link.
Asshat people eh?
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
What happens if someone leaves a comment and their name happens to be “Matt Hanson”, “Allen Taylor”, “Mike Harmon”, “Chris Moran”, “Tim Ramsey”, “Tina Russell”, “Jason Rakowski”, “Aaron Wakling” or “Susan Kishner”?
Could you possibly miss some good comments on the blog?
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You go Cow! Expose the evil spammer!
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Well done guys! These people should be shot.
I’ve been getting one a lot from info@hyperwebenable.com pushing web hosting using your own domain. I already have my own domain! Any good ideas for dealing with these bastards?
Go get’em Cow!
By the way… I just found your site on technorati and…
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What I did was I took off the “DO FOLLOW” thing for my comments and I just deleted that plugin. I hope after deleting it, spammers won’t get a part from comments unless of course it doesn’t work that way.
-Mike
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Expose this mongrel. Everyone go through your blogs and remove his comments if there are any. Lowest form of scum in the webmaster world: spammers, and scrapers.
Personally I don’t run the right kind of niche to get this kind of spam, but I do remove comments if they have a spammy-looking site in the URL.
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I’ll put money on it that someone has written a peice of software that automates posting comments like above using a different alias and link everytime
So this would result in the work being done automatically which is a right pain in the ass for us webmasters
AKISMET is does do a fantastic job but if someone is posting what looks like an innocent comment then chances are it will get through unless the users ip address or url is blacklisted?
Awwww…and here I thought I’d just gained five new readers that just happened to find my blog amonger the 1,648,195,453,943 other on technorati
Let’s hope the spambots doesn’t find his emails in your post…
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And there’s me thinking finally someone who appreciates my writing talents.
I got a matt hanson comment yesterday creativeadvertisingblog.com, whois shows as bryan fleming.
Thanks for the heads up JC.
Pete Moore
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Ya, I posted this same thing in the Digital Point forums asking wtf this was. Guess I’m not the only one who got it, lol. I would have approved it, if he didn’t comment twice like that, trying to pose as two different people, lol.
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I think that jackass actually got me with the first one, but then I saw several more across my 3 blogs. What amazes me is that he was creative enough to think this up, but didn’t use that creativity to come up with something productive. If all the ingenious spam tricks were applied to productive sites, the world (wide web) would be a much better place.
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Maybe he just hired somebody and just don’t know about it
hi….
good morning….
its morning in indonesia….
come on every body…..
MOVE on ANTI-SPAM campaign….
where the US President candidates ??
are they anti-SPAM too??
hehe
sorry, Out Of Topic
please do not add me to blacklist SPAMERS
i just wanna say good morning to John Cow Reader specially from Indonesia…
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Brilliant Cow. I had a Chris Moran special this week …. it has since been deleted.
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
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It says I’m from Australia!
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We should not follow their footsteps, I learn something new today.
Have a nice day.
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
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Lol. Funny post. I’m part of a small Poker Blogging group, and we often get exactly the same spam comments advertising the latest online casino offers. Very annoying. Especially when their bots go crazy and add 10 comments at once. Oh well.
P.S. I won’t be adding your RSS feed to my newsreader. But have asked to be notified of updates via email.
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haha this inspired me so much i am going to be linking to this post in my latest post.
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[...] But i started getting alot of these, so i knew it was spam. Ofcourse i didn’t take any real action other than blocking the email address and the ip it was coming from. One of the other bloggers that i read actually went ahead and do some research on this spammer. They expose the spammer, and his sites along with the email to public. Read it now, to blacklist these emails. [...]
Somehow I find it hard to believe it is just one person…more likely a f.leet of them working as one. Who knows…can’t stand these spammers…ugh
-Raymond
This is amazing! there’s people o just don’t know how to do it!!! if you don’t its better to stay quiet than to do this !$”%”!!! Well what can we do rather than have a laugh at this stupid guy fooling himself…
thanks to John Cow on is posts and content!!!
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Try searching google for this:
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…
Seems like this is popular on the internet….
I got one of these. I left the comment but changed the link to point to one of my niche blogs.
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OMG! What a coincidence! I just read this post earlier today and right now (midnight) he just wrote the post. At first I was happy about another comment, but then I remembered your post. I went back to your blog to check it out and see if it matched up, sure enough it did! Here is the exact message:
“I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you. Chris Moran”
URL: “everydaymarketingideas.com”
Thanks so much John Cow! This was incredible useful, and I’m thankful that you took the time to write this post. Every person who realizes this the better, this guy shouldn’t be able to profit from spamming.
GREAT STUFF!
Sincerely, Jake Cohen
http://www.talkprice.net
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I received something even more stupid today.
I wanted to take part in the dofollow movement as I’ve been making good use of it myself. However, all the spammer could be bothered to write was:
> Thank you.
> hhttp://www.xyz.com
How can he possibly expect me to approve such a useless comment?
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I found your site after doing a search for some comments that “Chris Moran” left on our site…
I don’t think it’s the same person. It could be multiple idiots seeing what he/she’s doing, then going, “Hey, let me try this technique (since I can’t afford real advertising).”
I like the way they use first and last names. What person would post their first and last names in a blog comment, anyway?
Nice graphics! I like the car.
JC - I love it! One of my sites e-mails had 50,000 e-mails in the inbox. 49,995 were spam. In fact, the amount of e-mails pushed my site into the red and it was suspended.
I love it when spammers get exposed or they get fined. You obviously went to a lot of work to expose this guy! Good job!
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I found your site on google while searching for this Matt Hanson guy, and only read this post. Keep up the average work. I did not add your RSS feed to any reader, and will probably not read any more posts from you.
(That hurts, right?)
But seriously, I was googling for the guy’s name, whose comment was actually caught by Akismet (yay!) - As an occasional blogger, I don’t get a lot of traffic on my blog (*hint*) and therefore, treasure any commentators that spend a few seconds on my blog, which makes people like me a prime target for spammers like Matt, who use what I have come to call “automatic electronic ego massagers”. I was going to write a post about it, but since you have already done that, so I’ll go back to work now
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Thanks for this post - I was almost hoodwinked by one of these phoney comments. Akismet did pick the comment up, but I thought it was a mistake. Now I know that Akismet is pretty damn sharp.
If Akismet thinks something is spam - it most probably is.
All the best,
Alex
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@ Alex - Don’t count on Akismet being right. There is a serious false positive with it. For example, if you were to make somebody mad they could mark your comment as spam and that would prevent you from leaving comments on any blog. I wrote about this back in December when it happened to me and it turned out that I was far from alone in this experience.
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I’m glad to see that someone else is on to him. I realized it was spam when he hit my blog, but didn’t realize it was an alias. I also did a little writeup, inspired by his spam, about the ethics of spamming (link is above.)
What? You’re giving away Plegming’s e.mail addresses? Next thing that we know, you’ll post something like this:
A Wired story from ‘97 suggest that Phlegming has been in the business of spamming for quite a while:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1997/12/8852
Meanwhile, other links are to pages that have Phlegming later posturing as an opponent of spam.
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I just received a comment on my blog from “Tim Ramsey” a quick search revealed the true reason for his post. Luckily my Akismet tossed it were it belonged, to the spam box.
You can add mydebtreliefblog.com to your list!
Thanks John
Thanks for the expose! He (Jason Rakowski) almost got me until I did a little Googling and realized he’d made the same innocent sounding blog post all across the net. Got to love it.
While you guys are posting addresses and phone numbers, I hope that it’s the same person doing the spamming, and not some guy who’s unfortunate to have the same name.
Just received another spam comment this time from a “Mike Harmon”
Site: accountingtips4you.com.
On this site he claims to be working towards a CPA. It includes a photo undoubtedly not his own.
Thanks, Marco Lombardini for the heads up on this accountingtips4you.com. Just got a comment/question that Akismet identified as spam. In the comment, he was asking about where I got the theme for my blog (not my palmdiscovery one) but another wordpress.com one that should have been obvious since you can’t import themes in the wordpress.com blogs.
These spammers are getting smarter. And then another spammer was sending spam that was related to what my site was about but after reading it, it was obvious it was spam. They just don’t stop.
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I was look for more information on this jackass. Akismet caught the comment, but I wanted to hunt his info down. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting.
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Yeah, new to blogging (about a month), I was suspicious of ole Mark Harmon’s compliment post. Thanks for confirming my suspicion!
—Matt—
Hey John,
I received this in my spam box today along with the accompanying links.
“Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.”
Allen Taylor
I was suspicious and checked out the linked site and noted that the format of the articles seemed like a skimmer but a little slicker. Checking further I found your article. Bingo! Now we know that he is still out there.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Patrick
John,
I found your blog after googling “Acountingtips4you.com.” That link accompanied a generic comment by one “Mike Harmon” left on my company’s blog — blog.hsh.com. What’s hilarious is you mentioned another one of his alias’ “Aaron Wakling,” we def. got a message from him once too.
I really enjoyed this post and I’ll be back again.
Thanks,
Tim
He hit two of my sites. Almost had me fooled. Thanks for posting this.
Uhh you do know that this guy was the founder of extractor marketing over a decade ago? Same software, different medium.
Sadly enough this F%&King scum bag…. who is of no relation to me has graduated to copyright infringement along with spamming and his other long list of dubious online practices. While running a backlink report on a website i am promoting i came across a website “addictionrecoveryblog-com” that had ripped off one of my promotion copywritten articles published on Ezarticles. i ran a whois it seems that there is a long list of crappy scrap sites this guy owns. After viewing the actual site my link software report I found that this POS had merely scraped my article which was published on 2/2/2009 on Ezarticles, and posted it on his blog site without my “By line” wrapped around his adsense ads!
At this point i have contacted Ezarticles and Google to report he copyright violation, and hopefully i will win a small victory over this retards theft of my hard work!
Any ideas on how to legally retaliate against this site will be truly appreciated!
Thanks
I took a look at some of the sites he has up. I think it's funny how he uses a different picture of a guy or a girl at the top of each blog. He must be pretty clever to bypass that spam filter.