{"id":4837,"date":"2016-11-22T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2016-11-22T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T18:01:01","slug":"trump-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2016\/11\/22\/trump-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Spam and when Google Isn&#8217;t Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start this post by saying this is not a political post. I promise.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at my Google Analytics account for this site the other day and in the list of languages my website visitors were using. Anything look odd here?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/language-1.png\" alt=\"Trump Spam in Analytics\" width=\"663\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/language-1.png 663w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/language-1-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starting on November 7, I&#8217;ve been getting visitors to this site using the language &#8220;Secret.\u0262oogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!&#8221; I don&#8217;t know where they speak that language.<\/p>\n<p>That sure is an interesting\u00a0to spam a website, especially in a way that normal site visitors would never see. Whoever the person doing is this, they aren&#8217;t leaving spam Trump comments that are getting blocked, they aren&#8217;t doing referral spam to Trump sites, they are visiting the site with that set as their language.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of these posts is what stands out to me. The spam here really started on the day of the US election, and has grown ever since. The election has come and gone, I don&#8217;t see the benefit of continuing the spamming &#8211; especially when only people looking at Google Analytics will ever see that information.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture23-1.png\" alt=\"Trump Spam Over Time\" width=\"949\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture23-1.png 949w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture23-1-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture23-1-768x206.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other part of this that&#8217;s concerning is the URL.<\/p>\n<p>Look at what they&#8217;re using &#8211;\u00a0Secret.\u0262oogle.com. Notice, that&#8217;s different than Google.com. The URLs are different, and for the average person who isn&#8217;t paying attention, potentially very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>I found this link from Martin Sickafoose at Purdue, who<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mar10s\/status\/800726238134407169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> tweeted about it<\/a> on Monday. That lower case G in there, which you may just gloss over and click on, it&#8217;s not a G but a Unicode character, in this case Unicode 0262. If you type in\u00a0\u0262oogle.com, you are not taken to Google, the search engine, but rather to this site:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">xn--oogle-wmc.com<\/pre>\n<p>That URL is spam and dangerous. Don&#8217;t click on it.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to filter that out of your referrals and other areas of Google Analytics, you can setup a filter.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.analyticsedge.com\/2016\/11\/heres-a-secret-%C9%A2oogle-com-is-not-google-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> AnalyticsEdge has directions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you noticing this happening on in your Analytics? Is there anything we can do to stop it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is spamming Google Analytics with Trump phrases, but they don&#8217;t go to Google itself, but rather to a spam trap. Avoid these links!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,68],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Spam and when Google Isn&#039;t Google - HighEdWebTech<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Someone is spamming Google Analytics with Trump phrases, but they don&#039;t go to Google itself, but rather to a spam trap. 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