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Where do my spammers come from ?

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Yesterday, while looking at the log file of this blog, I ask myself, where do the people who spam my blog come from ?

I made a little perl script that looks at the junk comments folder of Movable Type, finds the location of the spammer with Geo::IP, and displays it on a google map with HTML::GoogleMaps.

Here is the map of the comment spam.

In fact this is not very useful because the spam is sent from PCs infected by the virus that spammers make. However, I can note that the city of Kiev in Ukraine is my bigger spammers location with the South Korea.

I also generate the map for the trackback spam (214KB)

And maybe more useful, the map of my non spam comments.

Here is the script.

Maybe I should rewrite it as a MT plugin.