Spam comments are getting more interesting.
For the first time in a while, I looked through the spam comments Akismet caught. I have to say, spammers have gotten more creative with what they write, going into what seems to be a proper comment (but the website URL/email is so obviously bogus). Had I thought about blogging about it before deleting all the comments, I would post some for you. The general gist of the comments are like this, though:
“What a great post, but it doesn’t look right on a Mac. Take a look at it: (URL)”
“Nice post, but would’ve made it longer. Keep up the good writing, etc etc.”
And other things of that variety. I don’t know, maybe it’s because it’s so late at night and I’ve been so sleep deprived lately that I found that pretty interesting. For those of you who own blogs, do you ever read your spam comments? Do you get any that are pretty interesting and convincing sounding?
June 21st, 2010 at 9:02 pm
I’ve noticed that they are always general in nature and could be for any blog. Some are to trick people to another site but lots seems to be to bump the stats of the poster.
June 30th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I’ve definitely noticed that spam comments have gotten more authentic-sounding in the last two years. I think they actually take real people’s comments sometimes and re-post with their own links. It’s quite tricky really.
July 8th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
update moar, bitch.
July 19th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Just wanna brag, I’m going to COMICON this week!!!!!!!!!!
July 27th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Lucky!!