spammers

You don't need to have evil motives for wanting to fake your identity or go incognito online; for many people, it's a matter of privacy and avoiding spammers and scammers.

Thankfully, there are a great many tools for staying anonymous online. Here are a few of the best.

There is something amazing about how desperately humans want to see who has viewed their online profiles. This desire has been taken advantage of (again) by Twitter spammers as tweets like

From limiting benefits to issuing bans, social media is fighting back against the spammers. This infographic illustrates how many well known sites are handling the spam overload.

Facebook has been somewhat aggressive in going after folks who try to use Facebook for spam, winning various high dollar judgments.

Of course, you never expect the spammers who lose those lawsuits to ever actually pay up, but apparently in the case of one Canadian spammer, Facebook is upset enough to try to pursue things further.

Twitter spammers have been put on notice.

Starting today, each profile on Twitter now includes a “report [username] for spam” link.

In a recent post to the CatsWhoCode.com site Alex Denning takes a look at ten ways you can help stop those dreaded comment spammers on your WordPress blog.

Howtoforge: "If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails trough your server."

Trip up spammers with greylist-milter, a method of temporarily rejecting questionable email.