A Rosetta Stone of Blog Spam

Some person in Phoenix, Arizona was blog-spamming me yesterday, and must not have been familiar with the spam software.

And, hilariously, he/she/it manages to post EVERY “your blog is so great!” spam phrase that I’ve seen over the past several months. (OK: not ALL, but doggone close).

Just like when someone inadvertently puts their entire BCC mailing list in their CC field. (I’ve broken up the single continuous block of boilerplate for ease of reading). The “|” seems to be the software toggle they failed to understand how to use.

But you ought to understand that this is NOT benign. These are placed on your blog to increase the number of links and, therefore, “game” Google search rankings for generally crappy products and/or services. They have nothing to do with you, except to USE your blog to promote their site.

See if any of these “comments” ring a bell. To wit(less):

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Ain’t no crook like a dumb crook.

And, if we begin with dishonesty in business, how confident can you be that the website itself is on the up and up?

Not at all.

Caveat blogger.

Courage.

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    Hello there! I could have sworn I’ve visited your blog before but after going through some of the articles I realized it’s new to me. Anyways, I’m certainly happy I came across it and I’ll be book-marking it and checking back often!

    [NOTE: This is a case in point that appeared almost instantly. I've stripped the trackback info. HW]

  2. Wild Bill

    I sure do feel for ya Hart, I think I’d go crazy if I had to wade through that much (insert favorite adjetive/expletive) every day, or even very often. As you always finish with:

    Courage.

    • Well, don’t feel TOO bad for me, Bill. One of the big reasons I switched from Blogger to WordPress is that WP has a superior spam filter, and I only have to check the grease trap once a week or so. In this case, a LARGE varmint got stuck in it. :-)

  3. Hey! Great site. Love the content. If you ever need something at least half as good, you might try http://hisvorpal.wordpress.com/ … they’re pretty terrific too :-P

    • Thank you, Marty.

      I’m not sure that’s the link you meant to highlight, tho.

      (give me the actual link and I’ll be glad to fix it.)

      Unless you were being extremely arch, in which case, I appreciate it. ;-)

  4. You may know this already, but the first several (that’s all I could get through) are rather obviously from non-native speakers from Asia, esp Japan, perhaps China, Korea.

    • Yes. It’s kind of a weird redux of Philip K. Dick’s “translation” game from Galactic Pot Healer. And ofttimes hilarious.

      But the stacking and the clear toggles inside indicate that this is a program (whose text block was inadvertently copied entire) that’s out there for spammers. The URL it came from was Phoenix and it was tagged to a Phoenix commercial website, so I would guess that they bought it/were given it. I recognized dozens of comments from my Akismet spam cache, which makes it nice to know.

      In case you ever felt sorry for the poor foreign bugger who “likes” your blog. Nope: straight up scam.

  5. I use Disqus on my WordPress blog and they kill all the spam for me.

    PS It’s not a person sending you spam, it’s a bot.

    • Bob thank you for making that explicit. I neglected explaining for the foolish reason that it didn’t occur to me that many would not know about ‘bots.

      The ‘bot crawls and spams, and, generally, leaves no “hit” trace on many trackers.

      I offer the Rosetta Stone because a lot of blogs DON’T have very good spam filters.

      One of several types of digital vermin infesting the intertubes.

  6. What I like best about the WP filter is once you mark that address as spam, it is spam across the entire cloud and nobody else sees it. Before I closed comments I tried to warn trolls that they were about to lose their valid addresses, as Blogger, MT and several commercial spam blockers access the same database and that if I mark them as spam they may very well effectively lose that address as no one will let it through the filter, regardless the validity of the message. I got a real nasty e-mail recently from one of these trolls (a lawyer no less), rolled on the floor laughing my ass off. I warned him.

    As to the spam content, I suspect an evolving artificial semi-intelligence.

    • Thanks, Ten Bears. I believe that AI is on the rise. Within minutes of my posting (and I stripped out all links), a ‘bot showed up and posted one of the Rosetta Stone comments, without leaving a ‘hit.’ So, clearly, somebody’s ‘bot is scanning for language if one is foolish enough to leave blogspam up. No good deed goes unpunished.

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