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A comment on Blog Comments – Analysing 100,000 Comments and Spammers.

Re:Blog Comments – Analysing 100,000 Comments and Spammers by davedd on Friday May 11, 2012 @12:29PM (#3960008)
In terms of countries (based on the IP address of the spammer):

#1 USA (30%)

#2 China (20%)

#3 Russia (6%)

#4 Brazil (4%)

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Re:Blog Comments – Analysing 100,000 Comments and Spammers by ihsw on Friday May 11, 2012 @01:22PM (#3960263)
IP addresses aren't reliable, especially when considering spammers will know IP address geolocation will be used. It may be safe to assume a vast majority of US IP addresses will actually be proxies.
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