You Spammed Me At Hello
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this April 26th, 2007 4:31 pm
In the “Blog Spammers Are Getting Trickier” departments, a comments snared today:
Hi, What an Idea! Thank you for sharing this posted article for me or for every one,
you made a great job for your Blog.Keep it up the good work..
Again thank you very much.. CheersRegards,
Cheska Smith
<a href=”http://www.XXXXdeletedSpamSitexxx.com/”>Dog Training Device</a>
it’s the approach of almost human saying generic praise. But the lack of specific context foils it, along with the tell tale URL to a marketing web site.
And of course, the lovely, grammatically poised… “Keep it up the good work..”
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April 26th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Hi, What an Idea! Thank you for sharing this posted article for me or for every one,
you made a great job for your Blog. Keep it up the good work..
Again thank you very much.. Cheers
Regards,
Joshua Archer
I can hear the translation from South Asia in the text…
April 26th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
You had everything but the slimy URL…
April 27th, 2007 at 9:46 am
The new spam technique I’ve noticed is epitomized by a spambot that registers at drupal sites with the name “nareman”. It posts a bunch of inane, but not actively offensive comments, e.g. “Impossible is nothing.” My guess has been that, on a busy site, they might get overlooked and approved and that the bot could subsequently return and edit the postings, replacing them with more spammy content. But I don’t know.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:26 am
I suspect there are a number of attempts to get an inoffensive comment posted to get passed systems that require a previously approved comment to be able to post. One foot in the door and ….
April 28th, 2007 at 3:59 am
I really like some of the latest spam comments Akismet is catching that differentiate themselves from others by declaring they are “not spam”.