What Comment Spam Are You Seeing?

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on October 13, 2008 - 10:06am in

Over the past two weeks, I've seen a large increase in the number of spam comments that look similar to this one:

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same sort of spam? The good news is that Akismet has done a great job catching the messages before they go live.

Jeff Chandler's blog

I just got this a couple

Submitted by Leland (not verified) on October 13, 2008 - 10:59am.

I just got this a couple hours ago: "Thanks for such an important articles about shopping. This is a very needed info about shopping sites."

The URL was a deeplink on a .info site. Akismet didn't catch it.

Interesting that Akismet

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on October 13, 2008 - 11:09am.

Interesting that Akismet didn't catch it. I know WLTC has a lot of these hitting the blog and my own personal blog is being hit with them as well.

Spam

Submitted by Randy (not verified) on October 13, 2008 - 8:55pm.

Most of the spams that I get that are not complete garble say "I didn't agree with you at first, but the last paragraph makes sense to me."

spam comments

Submitted by Marilyn (not verified) on October 13, 2008 - 11:39pm.

Most of the spam I get is usually just one word, like "casino" or "tramadol" or "viagra"

Yep, I've been there seen

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on October 14, 2008 - 12:57am.

Yep, I've been there seen that. Boy are those annoying.

I am getting a LOT more spam

Submitted by Trent Brownrigg (not verified) on October 14, 2008 - 2:31am.

I am getting a LOT more spam pretty much across the board on all my blogs lately. It's really annoying! Many of them are getting past akismet because they somewhat look legit but I can tell they are not. Akismet does seem to be catching a lot more too. There will be hundreds in there just a day or two after I empty it.

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