Blog Comment Spammers
A few moments ago, I received a comment notifcation for a post I made a couple of years ago (which must rank well in Google for it to be noticed today). The comment turned out to be spam for An HDTV Reminder. I get hundreds of spam comments every day. In fact, my installation of WordPress claims: “Akismet has caught 227,338 spam for you since you first installed it.” Yikes!
This one, however, definitely slipped through (emphasized in red):
Author : Diana (IP: 217.17.88.78 , clients-217-17-88-78.mikrovisata.net)
E-mail : servemail@8080mail.info
URI : www.hdtv.***************.info/
Whois : ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=217.17.88.78
Comment: Please visit my site, click my ads and buy my crap
Forget about claiming that .INFO domains are registered for nothing other than spam sites - this is probably the one of the funniest pieces of blog spam I’ve ever recieved! I almost approved it, based on the hearty guffaw it elicited.
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13 Comments
Abhilash Ravishankar
November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am
sticky and people tend to tell their friends about what they participate in. I just don’t think that any of these plugins (or social networking buttons, for that matter) are worth the space or effort. comments Related Content:Move over, Blogebrity?Blog Comment SpammersBlog ClubMovable Type v1.4BlogebrityBlog PioneeringAkismet Accidents?Sugar HatersGooglefasting: Day 12Spam Research [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] (via Abhi’s shared items in Google Reader)
Bill Loftin
April 12th, 2007
at 12:55pm
I am one of the people that have switched from Vista back to XP.
I have two XP machines and I recently purchased a whiz bang laptop
from Dell with Vista installed. I had a driver problem that was really
nice. The pointer driver was in conflict with a Windows driver ( Vista
did not bother to tell me which one ) but the Microsoft search said
there was no solution. The Dell robot in India spent 3 hours and
decided it could not be fixed. I had a few other driver problems too
but I did not get far enough to really install the software that I use
everyday. So it is back to XP and things that work.
Digital Brainwaves
April 13th, 2007
at 3:55am
Usually, spam gets through to you because it’s written to obscure its intent from the prying eyes of anti-spam filters. Chris Pirillo was recently surprised to discover a comment left on his blog that didn’t hold back: Please visit my site, click my ads and buy my **** Posted in Teh Funny on April 12th, 2007 at 11:55 PM by Pauley | No comments
Jeff C
April 13th, 2007
at 1:08pm
Does akismet block all spam? I get around 30 comments a day that are all spam. Do any ever get through?
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Salocin.TEN
April 17th, 2007
at 2:35am
You could use SpamKarma. http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
It is much better than Akismet, as it checks against up to a few hundred spam databases at once (more can be easily added).
So far, using it on my Website, it has caught an average of 30 comment spams in a day. No more spam slips through!
The bundled Akismet does not seem to block off all spam. Jeff C is very right.
Website guy
April 23rd, 2007
at 10:54am
I used spamkarma…. It actually works pretty good.. I recommend it…
jqjmhz
May 23rd, 2007
at 9:53am
Hi, I have been looking for sites like this for a long time.
Good bye.
P. from Weston MA
July 17th, 2007
at 1:26pm
I think Askimet works great, I also think we need to be careful of our definition of what spam is…. is any meaningful post still “spam” if the author is plugging a particular website? What if it is done by a human instead of a robot?
P from Weston MA again
August 2nd, 2007
at 7:51am
To me the saddest part is that it seems like spam like this actually works. Why do people click on bogus links or emails?!?
Facebook Application
November 8th, 2007
at 8:23am
LOL! I would have approved it haha!
It’s rare that comment spam is clever, it’s usually just a bunch of crappy keywords smashed together which becomes an eyesore.
SPAM will never go away, my thoughts on the topic are that if it’s clever, like the comment in question definitely is… just let it go. I mean, we should at least encourage those who do spam to at least put in the effort to be creative.
Nice post.
Mike
December 9th, 2007
at 12:28am
akismet blocks even legit post