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The evil admin forwarded me a message from a reader just a few minutes ago.

I’m writing to see if you’ve been able to make any headway on the “milkcheesedns.com” spammer that you posted about several times this year. I’ve been receiving a large amount of this junk mail through one of my accounts and it’s practically unbearable. There’s a new domain name every day and my email host isn’t doing anything to improve their filters. The WHOIS records of these offending domains all point back to eNom.com / namecheap.com. I’ve tried contacting eNom, as you did, but my results were the same — their abuse form is broken and they don’t seem very cooperative to begin with. Can you offer any suggestions on how this jerk can be stopped? Besides the registrar and the usual “abuse@___.com” address, which is useless, what else can be done? I appreciate your thoughts.

Fighting spammer is an ongoing battle. We suggest users to create accounts at SpamCop.net and report the spam.

Spammers are using URL shorteners a lot more.

I have been seeing a lot of questionable referrers in my WordPress statistic. They obviously are coming from spammers and scammers. For the past week or so there are a lot of referrers using URL shortening services such as tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc. I cautiously opened the links to confirm my suspicions and almost all of them are pointing to domains I have already blocked.

While the URL shortening services are very valuable, they are also easily abused by the unscrupulous.