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..”
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…
You had everything but the slimy URL…
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.
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 ….
I really like some of the latest spam comments Akismet is catching that differentiate themselves from others by declaring they are “not spam”.