Spamming and weird commenting in the blogosphere is out of control recently. Lucky for you, I'm good at spotting these weirdos, because I always subscribe to comments on your blogs. I collected these comments for a while now and I made a list of them, which you will find below. The days of penile enlargement emails are almost gone and most of the Nigeria scam emails have also nearly disappeared from our emails. Britney.Lohan fcuked also have a hard time promoting their sexual adventures on Twitter. However spammers are still out there, but as the anti-spamming measures had some success, they became more and more inventive.
Let me show you some of those spammers I had the pleasure to deal with recently.
1 Using your friend's email address to spam you
I have no idea how they did that, I suppose they phished my friend's password, because I swear the address was exactly the same as my friend's. You don't need to be a professor to realize that something's not right. My Malaysian friend would never greet me with Howdyy.
2 Using your friend's MSN Messenger to spam you
A message like this pops up suddenly, when you're signed in MSN, but your friend is offline. Happened several times to me recently. He he hu hu ha ha, I wonder who would click on such nonsense... Lucky not me. :P
3 Spammer pretending he's a tweeter like you
Those were the weirdest spammers I ever saw. A while ago I allowed them to follow me, not knowing what they're up to. They became less recently, but they're worth to mention. Their nonsense is really a waste of cyberspace, don't you think?
4 Link spammers in comments, who comment nonsense
Just few days ago my sidekick Manju and her sidekick Shirley teased me with spamming. They (+many others) made my last post the most commented one. Thank you and I must say it cracked me up, however, it did attract real spammers: The next day I suddenly got 7 spam comments by two weird names - Xmas gifts and Beaches Resort. The names already tell you, that something's not right. Check the comment here, but don't click on the spammer's link. I left that comment to prove my point here.
Then today I noticed a guy, who didn't really write nonsense. He was flattering, yea, but his sole purpose was to link to his blog. He dropped comments on Shingo's [here], my [here], and Shirley's post [here]. All his comments were sent every 3min. Either he's an extremely fast reader and types fast or he's just a spammer like all the rest. I assume the latter, but make up your own mind.
[Related: My previous post about fake commentators]
Then today I noticed a guy, who didn't really write nonsense. He was flattering, yea, but his sole purpose was to link to his blog. He dropped comments on Shingo's [here], my [here], and Shirley's post [here]. All his comments were sent every 3min. Either he's an extremely fast reader and types fast or he's just a spammer like all the rest. I assume the latter, but make up your own mind.
[Related: My previous post about fake commentators]
[Click to enlarge to see his comments]
5 Link spammers in comments, who comment on topic
Did you notice some commentators always link to their blog in every of their comments? Guess what, they're spammers, too. And they piss me off, too. Yes, they may comment on topic, appear to be just a normal follower, but they're using your blog to increase their Google Pagerank. That's just not right and I decided to delete these comments, too. I may just delete the extra link and republish for now, if it becomes worse, I will delete whole comments.
That's spam, my friends. Even if the comment is cute and flattering, in the end they're trying to make money (by getting more hits and ad-clicks) on your respectful site's expense. It's perfectly ok to link in your user name and I also don't mind, if you link to a website (or a blog post) that relates to your comment. But linking to your blog in just every comment is spam!
That's spam, my friends. Even if the comment is cute and flattering, in the end they're trying to make money (by getting more hits and ad-clicks) on your respectful site's expense. It's perfectly ok to link in your user name and I also don't mind, if you link to a website (or a blog post) that relates to your comment. But linking to your blog in just every comment is spam!
6 Not spammers, but WTF anonymous commentators
I've seen this guy commenting on various blogs I follow and he even commented on mine and I have no idea what's the point of this. It's not spam, it's not on topic, it's just random nonsense. I guess he spammed so many times in his life, his brain shrunk and that's the result. Or am I too mean? Well, he does post the same statement over and over again, just altering the words a bit. Sheesh, some people will always be a mystery to me... on- and offline.
How do you handle spammers? What is spam for you and what not?
[Cartoon: Source][Helpful: Google's hard facts about comment spam]
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