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Clever Comment Spammers

Comment Spammers

I have been slow in posting but I regularly moderate comments and delete the spams but lately it has become more and more difficult to distinguish them from legitimate comments.

Following is a sample of what these scum bags have been writing and I just deleted almost 200+ comments that were left on different posts just today!    Reviewing such huge numbers of spam comments is a nightmare and it is possible to delete genuine comments accidentally but I hope I haven’t done that.

Here are some of them:

“great pictures, Especially for me at this winter time ,I am so in love with hot countries,Very peaceful!”

“Wow! this is a really nice blog. I loved reading it.
Thanks!”

“Nice info you have here..
I’ll use this a lot..thanks
and nice site too :D
“Good Afternoon…! ”
“Great Forum & Community!
I’ve been here as a freeloader for a while and finally got around to registration.
I sorta live online – spend most of my days addicted to social sites like MySpace.com and gambling sites like Betot.com.
Besides gambling (this week I made a sweet $2,000) off of betot, I love sports and hiking.
So that’s my self introduction. Happy New Year to All and hope to get to know you all better…
Peace…”

“The concept of holistic health is not new,but it was the first time I am listening to. Medicine is more an approach to how individuals should be treated, as opposed to a treatment method.”

“Howdy Partner, I fell lucky that I located this post while browsing for spyware doctor 3. I am with you on the topic of e going gets tough, tough feels like quitting |. Ironically, I was just putting a lot of thought into this last Thursday.”

“I think your blog need a new wordpress template. Downalod it from http:// genericwpthemes. com . The site has nice and unique wordpress templates.”

“I think you are thinking like sukrat, but I think you should cover the other side of the topic in the post too…”

“What if you are on someone else’s computer say, durning a hurricane evacuation. They dont tell you that have that type of spyware parents use to monitor the pre-teen kids and weeks after you leave, they go into your acocunt and go over all your entries? Is that wrong (ehtically it IS..I mean legally)?    Just asking because my paranoid aunt (erm..uncle’s wife) made my uncle go onto his computer and hell pulled up and printed every journal entry (including somebad ones about her…note – she’s a racist and I complained about it) on a site that you have to be a member of to read the entries, see member pages, etc.. (yes, I changed the passwords on ALL my frequently visited sites) and yes, after going to ther sites on their compy durning the Hurricane Ike evac, I clicked “Tools – Delete Browser History – Delete All” and they still got in…and the passwords were hard and in l33t.)”

HUH?  That last comment really got me thinking..   Is this person really a spammer or they were trying to make a point but I didn’t get it?   This was on the post When the going gets tough, tough feels like quitting
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teeni

Wow – yeah, they are getting creative and sound a bit more personal so it is harder to distinguish them. But that last one sounds real – it sounds like it was a comment made in the wrong spot or something. LOL. Who knows? I just reviewed the post it was on and it doesn’t seem like it belongs there.

Dharmendra

The points which you are explained is acceptable .But It’s tough to control them.unnecessarily entering comments.I read your post it’s good one ….The Articles are Excellent

Sally House

That last one is funny. It seems like it is out of place but I would have deleted it if it ended up on my website

Mikael

I’m glad that you hitting the spammers hard but I know how it feels to have to sort through a huge pile of comments. Unfortunately there is no really good way (that I know of) to avoid the spamming. Sure you can install these ugly things where you need to enter numbers or letters but I also feel that it’ll take away some of the real comments as people don’t want to do extra work.

But anyway… glad you’re hitting on them. ;)

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pearl

And there we go.. @Dharmendra left another junk comment and it fooled Akismet! But his links have been made ‘no follow’!

@teeni: The problem is you end up reading the whole darn thing and then have to think if it’s someone really trying to participate in the discussion – such a waste of time. My mind wandered off on a tangent (it was after midnight when I was reading this) I was thinking, with this kind of nephew in the family, no wonder the aunt is frustrated and is being bad on the computer.. who knows? lol

@Sally: I deleted it after a few days but if someone is leaving comments that are not making sense but they just want to get a link because this blog is “do follow”, I’ve started making them ‘no follow’. Thanks for stopping by.. hope you start blogging too

inspirationbit

Agree, the spammers are getting more personal nowadays.
Fortunately I don’t get that much spam, hardly any more automatic spam thanks to my changed in the comment form that I wrote about on iBit: Fighting Spam without Captcha

The latest spam comment that I got was: “Hi, good post dude, Your theme is really interesting Man!.. Keep rocking!” This spammers definitely got the gender wrong ;)

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pearl

@inspirationbit I get that one a lot too.. “dude you rock” .. perhaps only guys blog in their country :D

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Mark

Sometimes its fun to take an obvious spam comment, put it in quotes and search on Google to see how many times they have used it. Because spammers are lazy, once they find out what works they get out the cookie cutter and go to town.

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Thats good that you are hitting the spammers. you hv found a impressive way of doing that..
great…

Global Patriot

This is becoming more of a problem, and it’s obvious that the spammers are trying to be more creative in their methods. At this point you really need to have some sort of hurdle to jump over, such as Captcha, just to keep the numbers reasonable.

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