This video shows you how to report youtube spammers that could get you in danger since some of the sites that spammers are spamming contain malicious software that is similar to a virus, that is frequently called a Trojan horse.

1. Check scams - Receiving a check in the email for allegedly winning in the lottery ,sweepstakes or any other promotions.

2. Advance fee lenders - They try to contact people through phone after filling up an online form of loan application or have found an advertisement in a local newspaper.

3 . Online employment offers - A void job opportunities looking for “shipping” or “billing managers,” “payment processors” or anything with a financial sounding name often turn out to be fraudulent listings that are, in actuality, looking for victims to commit money laundering.

4. Lottery/sweepstakes notification letters - Epidemic in proportion, these are very much like the fake check scams.

5. Overpayment scams - Usually found in online forms especially ads and typically in places such as Craigslist or other classified forums on the Internet.

6. Mortgage foreclosure rescue scams - They usually contact residents and offer them a desperate plan that is affordable and supposedly allows them to keep the home.

7. Marketing/investment scams - Solicited mail or e-mail and saying they can make thousands of dollars working from home by buying a special kit, book or tape collection.

8. Inheritance scam - email that is being sent to the victim from someone claiming to be related to them or from somebody that claims to know that the victim’s distant relative is either very sick or has died and left inheritance money.

9. Phishing scams - Generally, e-mails are sent from what looks like a legitimate bank or financial institution, asking for confirmation of account numbers and personal information.

10. Nigerian scam - An email or letter sent from someone claiming being an official or agent from a foreign country, informing the recipient he or she is seeking a foreign company or individual into whose account they can deposit funds left over from government funds, a business bank transaction or a confiscated family inheritance.

Source: CourierNews

Black hat search engine optimization is not encouraged. That is the first thing you have to remember whenever black hat SEO is mentioned. And why is that? This is because black hat SEO is the use of unethical techniques in getting higher rankings among the search engines.

Many of the techniques used in black hat SEO actually used to be agreeable. But as many people went overboard with the techniques, the search engines and the general SEO community began to see the “black” effects it has to the online market. Black hat SEO is now characterized as breaking the rules and regulations of the search engines.

Black hat SEO is mainly concerned with the short-term goal of gaining high rankings. Because of the techniques used, it creates poor user experience, as the website was mainly created for the benefit of search engine spiders and not for the users and customers.

Here are main black hat SEO techniques to avoid, as is enumerated at Black Hat Search Engine Optimization, by Wendy Boswell:

Keyword stuffing: Packing long lists of keywords and nothing else onto your site will get you penalized eventually by search engines.

Invisible text: This is putting lists of keywords in white text on a white background in hopes of attracting more search engine spiders. Again, not a good way to attract searchers or search engine crawlers.

Doorway Pages: A doorway page is basically a “fake” page that the user will never see. It is purely for search engine spiders, and attempts to trick them into indexing the site higher.

Black hat SEO is certainly tempting. But these short-term unethical techniques will only actually hurt your websites in the long run. Search engines are now crawling around and looking out for these search engine rule breakers to penalize them. In the end, you’ll be on the losing side.

A lot of Hardcore groups of spammers now in North America and Europe created of up to 80% targetted spam to online users. The group has around 200 known professional gangs of spammers whose names are listed Spamhaus’ Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database.

The Top 10 Spammers listed by ROKSO is based mainly on spamhaus views that causes damages online.
The World’s Top 10 Worst ROKSO Spammers

1.Leo Kuvayev / BadCow - A Russian/American spammer. Who does pirated software spam, copy-cat pharmaceuticals, porn spam, porn payment collection, a so called “OEM CD”. Also spams that uses virus-created botnets that is involved in virus distribution.

2. Alex Blood / Alexander Mosh / AlekseyB / Alex Polyakov - From Ukraine, Alex Blood tied to Pilot Holding & bbasafehosting.com & Alex Polyakov posted he owned them. Massive botnet and child-porn spam ring, also pharma, mortgage, and more. May work with Kuvayev and Yambo.

3.Vincent Chan / yoric.net - A Chinese, Vincent Chan together with his chinese partners have been sending spam for years. They usually do a lot of pharmacy daily, They use a vast amount of compromised machines, for sending, hosting and proxyhijacking.

4.Russian Business Network - A Russian Federation, do child-pornography, malware, phishing and cybercrime hosting networks. As well as provides “bulletproof hosting”, and is involved in the crime too.

5.Nikhil Kumar Pragji / Dark-Mailer - From Australia Queensland, this type of spammer is responsible for and behind a large portion of the world’s illegally send spa,. through the Dark-Mailer Windows based proxy-botnet based spamware

6.Ruslan Ibragimov / send-safe.com- A russian,the creator of stealth spamware and is one of the larger criminal spamming operations around. Runs a CGI mailer on machines in Russia and uses hijacked open proxies and virus infected PCs to flood the world with spam.

7.Pavka / Artofit - A Russian gang who have been spamming for years. Started with porn, At present, they’re into many types of spam, always via hijacked PCs. Part of a large criminal group involving ROKSO spammers Leo Kuvayev & Alex Blood. Also see “Yambo Financials” ROKSO.

8.Amichai Inbar - From Israel,a full scale criminal operation. These includes: Spamming porn, illegal drugs and pump-&-dump stock using botnets.

9.Yambo Financials- From Ukraine, A huge spamhaus tied into distribution and billing for child, animal, and incest-porn, pirated software, and pharmaceuticals. The run their own merchant services The credit card collection and set up as a fake “bank.”

10.Michael Lindsay / iMedia Networks- Form US California, Lindsay’s iMedia Networks is a full-fledged spam-hosting operation which is serving bulletproof hosting at high premiums to well known ROKSO-listed spammers. He has a customers spam via botnet zombies with spam payloads hosted offshore, tunneled back to his servers.

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Types of comment spammers you should be aware of:

1. Sex for Fantasy - These are the guys who live in a fantasy world where everyone who sees their comments are going to click on the link. They use all sorts of entertaining sexual words that are very easy to spot. Their latest trick is to use a normal sentence like this and throw in a couple (or more) words that relate to the topic they’re spamming.
2. Now you see it, now you don’t - These guys are a bit trickier. If you don’t spot them from the horrible text they use in their comments, you’ll easily spot them by their 404 pages when you follow the links to the page they’re promoting. Why would they have a page like that? Well, they’re hoping you’ll think the page is temporarily down while they actually are cloaking and provide real content to the search engines.
3. Bold Spammers - These jokers still go with the old outdated theory that bolding text actually helps. So they’ll throw their keyword in the comment and bold it. Nothing much to see here other than a couple of words that are bolded. For those of you who are about to contest that, I’ve got a site that will be out soon with lots of very fascinating statistically based information on what the search engines like and don’t like.
4. Foreign Language Spammer - If these guys did not put their keywords in bold at the top of their comments, they would be a bit harder to spot. They’ll usually throw their keywords in and then have some random foreign language spam on the page as well. It helps them rank on the foreign language search engine as well as the English version.
5. To the Point - Keyword followed by link.