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Clever Automated Blog Comment Spam

by bgmacaw
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I got this spam comment on at least a dozen blogs today.

Hiya, i have seen your site when searching a few weeks ago and i really love the design! I just bought a new 3 character domain (cost me a packet) for a niche review blog, and i was wondering if your design is a free or paid one? I'm new to Wordpress and about to set it up, and i would really like to get something with a similar look to yours. Any ideas where i could download or buy something similar? Thanks for your help!
It seems like somebody bought themselves a new blog comment spammer program and put a little more thought into it than most folks do. If the same text hadn't been repeated so many times across so many blogs on unrelated posts I might have been fooled and approved it. As it is, "Hello Akismet."
#automated #blog #clever #comment #spam
  • Profile picture of the author eholmlund
    Well I guess if you're going to be a comment spammer you might as well be clever about it ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
    That's a pretty good one... cut and paste
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    ...looking for the easy way...

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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      On the other hand, you sort of have to feel a bit sorry for someone that would spend a packet on such a lame domain name. No wonder they need a free WordPress theme.
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  • Profile picture of the author GuruGazette
    Hehe... yup... I got the same thing on several blogs yesterday. It was worded a little differently though, so either they're spinning the text or they hired an "outsourcer" to leave blog comments for them.
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    • Profile picture of the author jmidas
      Originally Posted by GuruGazette View Post

      Hehe... yup... I got the same thing on several blogs yesterday. It was worded a little differently though, so either they're spinning the text or they hired an "outsourcer" to leave blog comments for them.
      Looks like they are using Xrumer or a similar program.
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  • Profile picture of the author Teresa Coppes
    Forgive the stupid question but what happens if you do approve the comment? Is there a link or something hidden in them?
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    • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
      Originally Posted by Teresa_C View Post

      Forgive the stupid question but what happens if you do approve the comment? Is there a link or something hidden in them?
      They just have their link in the 'website' field of the standard WordPress comment form. Their name is usually a keyword anchor like "Web Hosting" or "Forex Trading". Their goal is to land the comment on a blog where the blogger allows the comment and they've also used a plugin to allow links to be followed. If they do it enough times with an automated program they'll land a few.
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  • Profile picture of the author NikkiM
    I guess spammers figured out that they are being ignored so they are evolving in to something else. I guess we will have to look a little harder when it comes to spam from now on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jon Alexander
    where that kind of comment fails is if your blog is using the default wordpress template...
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