wowgold-sale.com linked sites

I'm making a new post for this since I figured out what to do with this information instead of just dumping it into my blog.

I doubt this is a complete list. In fact, it's still in the works. It's probably close, though. All of these sites link up to wowgold-sale.com and all are used in comment spam and on splogs. I've got 104 addresses now. Holy crap.

The information is available in two formats from Google docs:

• Document
• Spreadsheet

Enjoy. Or try to.

More wowgold-sale.com sites

The list is now 104. Ug. OK, that's over 100. Time to poke at that other group...

New splog user names

Most of these were registered within the past week and I located them with one of my magic splog phrases in my last post about splog user names. Note that user names posted previously are also in use.

• goldwows
• wowgold001
  
• wowgold938
  
• wowgold0930
• wowgold930
  

More splog user names

Yep, time for the sploggers to start over. I'm going to randomly keep adding to this list but since these are new names, I'm making it a new one. Note that once again, I'm hardly saying that all users who use these names are spammers. I've just run into several that are. There are other user names in use by this particular type of spammer as well, but I only list those that I have found on multiple networks.

• buygold
• buygolds
• buywowgold3
• cheapgold
  
• goldwow
  
• goodwow
• lovewows
• wow01gold
  
• wow-game
  
• wowgamegold
  
• wowgold001
• wowgold002
  
• wowgoldes
• wowhello

"lovewows?" "buygolds?" Holy cow, these spammers are so creative! Here's a magic splog phrase! And another!

Current top splog user names

I know I mentioned these in another post, but the patterns are so noticeable now that I'm giving this its own entry. Once again, I'm not saying every user with these names is a spammer, but I've found all of these user names on splogs lately and it's a good way to start checking. I'm also including the FFXI stuff since there seems to be a connection. I'm breaking this into two lists based on names I've found a lot versus names I've found several times but not as often.

Most Common:

• buywowgold
  
• cheapwowgold
  
• ffxigil
  
• ffigilgold
  
• googlewow
  
• lovewow
  
• nicewow
  
• sellwowgold
  
• wowgame
  
• wowgamegold
  
• wowgoldse
  
• wownice

Others:

• buywarcraftgold
  
• cheapffxigilgold
  
• cheapwarcraftgold
• gwowgold
  
• sellwarcraftgold
  
• warcraftgold
  
• wowgoldwow
  
• wowwownice

The standard "wowgold" is also sometimes used but is surprisingly less common. I've found duplicate versions of the same information under that account name on a few servers, but in those cases, there hasn't been an update since 2005 and there are no distinctive links to other places, so I'm leaving it alone. Obviously, there are other user names in use, but I haven't seen them very often yet.

It's funny, but it seems I'm expecting way too much creativity from this stuff. I figured any minute, they'd run out of wowgold names and resort to stupid names like, say, "wowpreciousmetal" or at the very least, stuff like "w0wg0ld" but no, the trend is tacking on extra "wow"s.

Sept. 12 2006: Added some more user names and did some sorting.