Spammers and scammers are a regrettable blight on the Twitter landscape, like the strip-club touts in Times Square before it became Disneyfied, or the presence of Jon and Kate Gosselin in any media.

And most of us react to Twitter's bottom-feeders in a predictable way. We either ignore, complain about, mock or block them. But really, when you think about it, doesn't the path of least resistance enable these shameless hucksters?

Ike Pigott, a communications professional who runs a blog called Occam's RazR, isn't having it. After receiving fawning comments from a guy named Matthew Duggan, who runs a site called buildyourfollowers.com (link not included on purpose), Pigott figured out what was going on and decided to teach "Fake Twitter Guru Matthew Duggan" a lesson he shan't soon forget.

But Pigott doesn't stop at publicly outing and humiliating Duggan -- whose @BYFollowers Twitter account has 418 followers and was started on Oct. 29 (probably after the previous ones were deleted by Twitter). He wants to crowdsource the beatdown:

I am a firm believer in Search Engine Optimization techniques, but I am not a fan of being a shameless spammer like Fake Twitter Guru Matthew Duggan. So let’s show Fake Twitter Guru Matthew Duggan how SEO is done right.

If everyone uses the words Fake Twitter Guru as the anchor text linking to his site, then we can make him Number One with a bullet!

Please share the good news about Fake Twitter Guru Matthew Duggan with as many sites as you can, and be sure to share this entry with your friends! Get them to help too! (There are a number of icons below to make it easy. Bookmark it! Digg it! Tweet it!)

Let people like Fake Twitter Guru Matthew Duggan know that their Neanderthal understanding of marketing is sleazy and won't be tolerated in a polite society. The business you save from getting suckered by his shenanigans might be your own.

I can almost smell Duggan's tailfeathers from here. My advice to the self-described "actor, entrepreneur, social media enthusiast and professional magician"? Stick to kids' birthday parties.