Keith's Complete Waste of Time

I got spam earlier today, sent to the address

keith dash adword at stattenfield.org

except that you replace the dash with ‘-‘ and the at with ‘@’, like you’d expect.  I don’t want to put the address in my blog because I don’t want spammers to harvest it.

That email address appears, as near as I can tell, on exactly one webpage in the world —

http://www.stattenfield.org/random-characters.html

where, again, random-characters.html is something else that I’m not going to put here because I don’t want anything else linked there.

The only thing that links to the page with that email address on it is the ad I buy on Google in their AdWords program for my name ( go search for “Keith Stattenfield” on Google and you’ll see my ad ).  So, someone must have gotten there from a Google ad referral in order to see that address, and that means that Google charged me for that ad, and then the bastard spammer harvested my address and spammed me.

Bastards!

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