Pages Tagged “blogspam”
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- Copy-Paste Comment Spam Returns
I woke up to ten or so first-time comments* in the moderation queue at Speed Force this morning. As I started reading them I was briefly confused: they were well-written, specific comments about comic books….that had nothing to do with the posts they were attached to. Complaining about Bendis’ writing on an interview with Paul […]
- Autogenerate THIS!
A new comment spam starts out telling me how great my articles are…and then says I should auto-generate them instead.
- More Generic Blog Spam
If you see any of these comments show up on your blog, chances are good that it’s a spammer, not someone who actually wants to contribute to the conversation.
- Generic Blogspam
If you see any – or all – of these comments on your site, it’s a safe bet that the commenter isn’t interested in having a conversation.
- Please step away from the thesaurus
I’ve been seeing a lot of those “I just found your blog by searching and it’s the best thing since sliced bread” comment spams lately, some even slipping through Akismet. But this one was just hilarious in its unreadability: Virtuous what I used to be in search of and quite thoroughgoing as floor. Many thanks […]
- Spambots In Disguise!
I spotted a run of comment spam using the names and reconstructed email addresses of regular commenters.
- Honest Comment Spammer
While cleanning out the comment spam folder on Speed Force, I found this gem: Hi this is a attempt to get noticed on the world wide web and hopefully spread the word about our services. It would be kind of you if you allow me to share my online marketing one the site. The company […]
- A Lot of Effort to Disguise Some Spam
Someone copied a comment on a site with a similar topic to one of my blogs, but somehow managed not to match it to an appropriate post.
- Sneaky Spammer
Judging by a quartet of comments posted this evening, 3 of which slipped past Spam Karma, someone’s started outsourcing comment spam to India. (I’m serious, the IP addresses were assigned to Bharti Airtel and BSNL Internet, both ISPs based in New Delhi.) They were posted quickly, as if they’d been composed in another editor and […]
- The Good Old Days
I stumbled across an archived mailing list post from a few years ago where I remarked on how little spam targeted WordPress blogs at the time. How things change!
- Apparently, it *is* a challenge
Every once in a while, a comment spam manages to get past both Bad Behavior and Spam Karma. Oddly enough, it always seems to be on the same entry: “Abuse Contact” is not an invitation. I guess spammers like a challenge as much as anyone else.
- Fully Random Spam
The blog spammers must be getting desperate. The only other explanation I can think of is courtesy (keeping offensive language out of the posts), and I just can’t ascribe that motive to them. The latest attack on this site consists of randomly-generated alphanumeric strings. Name? ah87fdfbqpo3q9483fhc. Email? ahsdhufs@q98hf4i4whfcia487f.com. URL? augfagfwi7832hr732rh8732fcfiuh.example.com. (I assume they have a […]
- Distributed Blog Spam
Yesterday morning, I remarked to Katie that it seemed odd that with the vast number of “zombie” computers infected with remote control programs via viruses, trojans, spyware, etc., their primary use so far has been sending spam. After 7-odd years of distributed computing projects ranging from demonstrating weaknesses in encryption schemes to searching for extra-terrestrial […]