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Weird blog spam

May 3rd, 2008 by Andreas from Xavier Media

In the last few days I've noticed some weird blog spam in some of my blogs. The thing with this spam is that Akismet is not reacting and marking the comments as spam. They go directly to the approve comment queue.

It's easy to see that the comment is a spam comment, but it's a little bit annoying that Akismet can't see it's spam :(

Anyway, the weird part of these spam comments are the URL field because it's just http://url as web site and not a wokring web site :???: Since the comments don't contain any links or other contact information these spam comments are completely useless if they somehow should get approved and not marked as spam. They are simply just words :D Since the spam is coming from everywhere (different networks, IPs and users) it must be some kind of trojan infecting peoples computers and sending the spam.

As you can see on this sample comment, it's just words and a non-working URL:

Weird blog comment spam

I get a feeling that someone did a poor job programming this spam bot/trojan :D

Have you also seen this kind of poor spam comments lately?

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2 Responses to “Weird blog spam”

  1. WAHM Tara Says:

    I get allot of spam comments daily, actually about 75 or so, but Akismet has done an excellent job of catching it. I have not got any spam comments like that though.

    WAHM Taras last blog post..My Power Mall Business Review

  2. Andreas from Xavier Media Says:

    We get a lot of other spam too (about 4000 spam comments per month :( ), but as I wrote this is the first time Akismet isn't working. It must be because the comments don't have any links in them and the web site is invalid.

    /Andreas

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