{"id":5419,"date":"2011-02-18T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2011-02-18T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T21:56:07","slug":"spammers-are-using-url-shorteners-a-lot-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/02\/18\/spammers-are-using-url-shorteners-a-lot-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammers are using URL shorteners a lot more."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>While the URL shortening services are very valuable, they are also easily abused by the unscrupulous.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/02\/18\/spammers-are-using-url-shorteners-a-lot-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spammers are using URL shorteners a lot more.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4,6],"tags":[2009,2511,2619,2621,2648,2769,2772,936,3039],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-rants","tag-media","tag-resources","tag-scam","tag-scammers","tag-security","tag-spam","tag-spammers","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1pp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}