Its not often that spam gets through my gmail spam filters but this one did, and its quite ingenious:



[![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/710shot.gif "710shot")](/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/710shot.gif)

Whats clever about it:

1.  It uses my name, and my nickname at that to make it sound more personal
2.  It comes from a real sounding name "Bruce Thomas"
3.  It looks exactly like a standard forward email
4.  The attachment contains the name PDF
5.  It contains the "No virus found in the incoming message" text from AVG
    In short it almost got me, when you are short of time and briefly glance at a mail you may look over things and download and open an attachment without thinking about it.

Anyways, thought I would share ;)

Thats it im angry enough with this site to actually write a blogpost about it.

Im sure if you are technical individual you have come accross this god awful site countless times. Over and over again you type in a query your problem into google, something like "php upload The connection was reset" a perfectly legitimate question and one that probably has been answered on a forum before. You then go through the google results and more often than not you come accross something like this:



[![ScreenHunter_02 Nov. 01 19.16](/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ScreenHunter_02-Nov.-01-19.16.gif "ScreenHunter_02 Nov. 01 19.16")](/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ScreenHunter_02-Nov.-01-19.16.gif)

You read the title thinking, oh this sounds promising, may be the same problem im having. You click it and then are presented with this:

[![ScreenHunter_03 Nov. 01 19.16](/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ScreenHunter_03-Nov.-01-19.16.gif "ScreenHunter_03 Nov. 01 19.16")](/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ScreenHunter_03-Nov.-01-19.16.gif)

Its at this moment you start to get that little suspicious sensation that you have been on this site before and have ended up being totally pissed off but any remember why. Anyways, you read the text, great, sounds like it is similar to my problem, so what were the suggestions of how to fix it? You scroll down imagining the answer to be down a little..

[![ScreenHunter_04 Nov. 01 19.17](/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ScreenHunter_04-Nov.-01-19.17.gif "ScreenHunter_04 Nov. 01 19.17")](/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ScreenHunter_04-Nov.-01-19.17.gif)

Umm.. hmm this doesnt look like its a forum post reply.. looks like a whole nother big list of problems, perhaps I should scroll down a little more...

[![ScreenHunter_05 Nov. 01 19.17](/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ScreenHunter_05-Nov.-01-19.17.gif "ScreenHunter_05 Nov. 01 19.17")](/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ScreenHunter_05-Nov.-01-19.17.gif)

Ahh these look like the responses to my question... oh wait a min they arent... hmmm so what are these? they look like more questions. So whats going on here then? There seems to be no responses to the original question, no link to the original post, nothing, so what is the point in this site and why does it rank in the top 10 of many many google search queries?

Well it seems like all it does is spam the internet with totally useless pages that google seems to rank highly, basically its SPAM and bloody anoying spam at that.

I urge everyone who has come accross this site and come to the same conclusion to report this as spam to google using the the following link:

[https://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html](https://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html)

Lets get this god-awful pointless bag-o-crap off the net once and for all!