When Pet Spammers took over Del.icio.us

Smart thinking by Dog-cat-pet spammers. (who!?)

They have targeted a much less explored segment of users, Social networking.

What has happened: 10 to 12 delicious “users” have bookmarked a set of links of particular (spam) sites within a certain time span. Quite obviously, these links have surfaced on the delicious popular page. The no. of links increased from 3 to 11 within 5 hours time. (from 0800 GMT today)

The result is that the popular page looks like shit, that is, no different than a random-url spam site.

This has also made other news aggregators which features this page look .. well, shitty.

(eg: popurls)

Here is a list of delicious user ids which have been used to spam the site.

saniyamishra78 , retfjku78, tachz.p, ch339ric (links may become dead IF delicious team takes cares of these ids, only IF)

“Cat Go Kitty Krazy Toy beats Stuffed Dog and Cat Blog Archive Petsmart Gift Card” – says the spam page title. Wtf does that even mean apart from the fact that it concerns dogs and cats !

Spammers are stupid yes, but this is outrageous. Nevertheless, “smart” stuff from these stupid spammer. I also observed that not even a single genuine user has bookmarked these links. This also proves blind bookmarking is practically non-existant here.

Expecting some action soon.