my blog is pretty new and I have not really made any efforts to make it rank well, as a result traffic is not that great.
This made the impact of my post on a domain name scam all the more pronounced, as my blog came up for all sorts of variations on the scammers’ theme. I’m pleased that my post proved useful
Because this traffic to my post dwarfs the little other traffic I get I got a good insight into when and where these emails must have gone. My first traffic hit came on the 18th Jan, followed by subsequent spikes on the 21st and 24th. Visits died a death on the 26th and 27th and were on the increase again yesterday.
The US seems to have been the biggest recipient of the Spam emails, with 27.5% of the resulting traffic. The UK came next with 13%. After that it was Australia, Germany, Spain, Canada, China (maybe they were checking up on progress!!), the Netherlands, Japan and finally Italy.
I’ll make sure I post any other such emails when they come in, not for the traffic but because it seems a great way to notify people to watch out.


Spam count
This morning I had 2337 emails in my spam folder, this is after the bulk auto-deleting of any emails sent to all non-registered SCH addresses, and not one false positive amongst them. This also doesn’t count the Spam emails that get through the filter and which arrive in my inbox. What a waste of my time.