Vikings, Viagra and Versace: a brief history of spam

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Some spam is more obvious than the rest… But what is it doing on your site? How did it get there? How did it defeat the Captcha, and why didn’t that nifty invisible javascript stop the spam-bot anyway?

Can you tell the spam from the ham? Find out how (and why) spam finds your site. And learn the best practices for managing it.