Google has been removing publishers from Google News index for vague reasons because of new policy reviews. This was confirmed by a recent tweet from @mattcutts who said “The Google news folks are actually starting a nice crackdown on low-quality/spammy news sources”

A Orkut community was behind the Facebook Rotating Image and 360 Image scam. The Orkut Underground community launched a spam attack on Facebook.

Facebook Messaging/Email has been hit with Email scam. Users are now seeing You have won million dollar email scam in Facebook Messaging.

How To find spam posts on your Facebook Fan page found by the new Spam filter feature for Facebook pages.

Facebook Adds Spam Filter for Fan Pages. Facebook will now mark unwanted posts as Spam in your Facebook fan page.

Quite sometime back Twitter was under a IQ test DM spam where tons of users were affected. It looks like a similar IQ test DM spam is affecting users.

Google Buzz has around 60% of its content coming from Twitter and almost 27% of it is from automated RSS feeds. That leaves a mere 11% of content which is purely typed in by the user.

In a recent report released by Panda Security, which analyzed over 5 million spam messages generated in January and February 2010, Brazil, India, Korea, Vietnam and USA were the 5 biggest culprits for generating the spam messages. Brazil accounted for 13.76% of the spam messages, followed by India with 10.98% spam messages.

Google Groups is now complying with FCC policy of not spamming commonly known as CAN-SPAM, however, they did not run grammar checks on the messages they add to emails sent out through Google Groups.

Google Webmaster team has decided to send out messages about hacked or spammy websites to webmasters through Google Webmaster Tools. Users whose websites have been infected or hacked will receive these message in the dashboard for Google Webmaster.

Oh My God, before we even came out of a really bad Twitter Phishing scam, we have another one back on our backside, this time it is not phishing though, however, it is definitely horny and sends out a horny and spammy direct message

We are all afraid of our email addresses being harvested and being used to send us spam. To overcome that fear, some bright person (who I don’t know) came up with an idea to use “email AT domain DOT com”, this essentially thwarted a spammer’s regex attack to harvest email address which were written as [email protected]

Project Honeypot recently received their 1 billionth spam message, which is not startling considering that thousands of users around the world are conned by legitimate looking emails and scams every single day. The 1 billionth spam message spoofed the US IRS.

Leaving comments that don’t say anything but just contain links to your website can actually hurt the ranking of your website.

Don’t sit back and let these sploggers use your hard work just like that, here are some ways in which you can report spam blogs on WordPress.com and file a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) request for Blogger/Blogspot blogs.