Spam chongqing

I was amazed this afternoon when I checked my email and found an email from a spammer. Nope, its not the one of the normal 70% spam in my email box, it was a letter to me from Hakdata. It's a very well thought out explanation of Hakdata's plan to spam wikis. I guess its supposed to get us to leave him alone because they are "nice" about their spamming. I especially like how they thank me for blogging about them, which I hadn't even done (other than include a few of his keywords on my sidebar).

When Manni added them to the nominee's page I didn't really bother with them much since they looked like they were spamming mostly German wikis, which limits my effectiveness in reversing their damage. But lucky for Hakdata, Manni speaks German. Now that they spelled out their plan I think its time for our first new promotion to the worst spammer cases page. I am sure going to take them far more serious now.

Here is their email for anyone who wants to try and understand the twisted mind of a spammer:

From: "Hakdata" <mail@hakdata.de>
To: <joe@chongqed.org>
Subject: Friday, May 28, 2004 about us Hakdata

hallo joe ,

thanks for the blog about us. Really nice you found. Perhaps it
is better for wiki - owners to create a link page on witch we
can place only one link.

If it is your goal to remove all spammers from wiki pages. No problem,
we are working at the moment at scripts to find wiki sites and place our
links automaticly.

But this is not the thing we want to do. We need only 5 Links from Pages
with a Pagerank higher than 6. If we have them, we will stop to spam
wiki and never come back.

Kind regards
Hakdata

This guy just doesn't get it. Wiki owners aren't going to create a page for spammers to add their links to. The purpose of the wiki is to share information, not to help some pathetic wannabe SEO company boost their PageRank. Thier "promise" to not return after they have five links is stupid. If every wiki spammer in the world promised to only put five links on a wiki it would still leave wikis full of garbage and unusable.