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Tue 2006-05-16

Hand-written comment spam

Filed under: — daniel @ 21:16

Amongst all the easy-to-spot robot comment spam, I’m getting a bunch that (at first glance) looks like it’s written by humans. Gone are the stupid out-of-context broken-English comments and links to drug sales. These all have comments that look like they’ve got a few milliseconds’ thought put into them, all on new posts, they all leave a rediffmail (Indian GMail-type operation) address, a 209.97. IP address, and a link to a web site featuring lots of links and no content.

So far I’ve been spiteful and kept the comments but wiped the URL link.

I wonder if they’re particularly targetting WordPress sites that haven’t yet been upgraded to use the NoFollow links.

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One Response to “Hand-written comment spam”

  1. Geek Rant dot org Says:

    More on human comment spam

    Update to this post about human comment spam, about a new trend in blog comment spamming, using real life human spammers, to get around the fact that most bloggers can see the robots coming from miles away.
    I’ve had a large number of these come…

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