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March 29, 2004
New kind of comments spam?
This is strange: my latest comment spam isn't porn or pills or real estate, but...boring people? This site was spammed into a few of my entries here today with the usual "good site, keep up the good work" message. (I've already de-spammed those entries.) But check that link, it's not obviously a spam link, but what is it? Click on the "My friends" link and notice that this person's "friends" have sites that are almost identical to his: some bland personal information and hobbies, some contact info, and a list of friends.
I'm baffled. The HTML source doesn't contain any clues. But these are obviously comment spam. Will these sites suddenly change to livestock porn or ch33p pi77s and reap the massive benefits of my incredible Google PageRank? What's the idea?
Posted by Andrew at March 29, 2004 04:41 PM
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I'll bet you have your pop-up blocker on...that's how they getcha.
Posted by: tanya at March 29, 2004 05:28 PM
Oh, geez of course. Thanks Tanya for pointing that out.
Posted by: Andrew at March 29, 2004 05:54 PM
so...is his life story just bogus? and i didn't look at any of his friends, but do they also have bios? who writes this crap? what an irritating way to make a buck.
Posted by: heather at March 29, 2004 06:22 PM
Eek! That's creepy and not a good place to go with a PC. My security software had a minor freak-out when I clicked on a friend link.
I got an odd email yesterday asking me to help with a link to a specific page on my web site. Pretty sure it's spam, but I've never seen one like it and my spam filter didn't catch it either.
Posted by: david at March 30, 2004 12:28 PM
What if the poster is not a spam-bot, but merely a human without much time to spend on his blog?
Posted by: stefan smagula at March 31, 2004 09:43 AM
.... of course it could be that the hideous reality is, and I shudder to think, tho one suspects it could be possible - that there are simply a lot of boring fukers out there. Excuse the expletive there is no other way to desribe these oxygen robbers now is there....
keep up the good work (oops).
Posted by: static 404 at March 31, 2004 11:35 AM
Yes but the point is: these are not boring fuckers. These are spammers, and quite obviously so when you go to their pages with pop-up blockers off.
Posted by: Andrew at March 31, 2004 12:20 PM