April 18th, 2008Spammers Are Getting Stupid-er-er
It seems that spammers are getting lazier this year and, instead of writing comments that make me wonder about their validity, they’re writing obvious spam sentence fragments and attaching Nick Ramsay’s Katakana name (ニックラムセイ) to the bottom. Like so:
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a spam comment like this in the last few weeks. What I don’t get, though, is why real people seem to be doing this kind of thing.
According to FireStats, these comments are coming from real people that are visiting the site for several minutes, and they come here via some unknown referrer. They’ll take a look at a few of my older posts, and then leave some kind of tripe like we see above on whichever one has the most keywords.
Spam Messages On The Rise
Has anyone else noticed that the last few weeks has seen an increase in the amount of spam captured by our comment filters? I sure as heck have. Here are some of the numbers that I’ve seen from April 1st to the 18th this year. While it might not be an incredible amount of spam, it’s still a gross increase over the trickle that has been coming to this site since the end of 2006. So why the increase?
I’ll never understand spammers but, so long as people allow comments such as this to get on their site, there’ll be no end in sight for such creatures.
Have you noticed a rise in spam comments lately?
Put in a Captcha, I don’t mind.
Also when I do get the odd spam comment on my blogs, it makes me feel good knowing it takes less time for me to delete the spam comment than they took to put it on!
Wow! Not only are my email addresses being spoofed and making me look responsible for spamming the world with ads for watches and impotency pills, now I’m spamming the blogosphere, too!
I think the rise of Google Blog Search is partly responsible for the increase in this kind of spam. I’m guilty of using it to find blog posts related to my sites and leaving a friendly comment and link. I wouldn’t dare do blatant spam, but some people obviously do. You could argue that most blogs don’t pass pagerank through their comment sections, but that doesn’t stop humans from clicking the links.
Interesting about the katakana Nick Ramsey; I got a spam comment with お花見 today. Now I can tell my friends that refuse to advance their Japanese skills that even the spammers are passing them up the ladder.
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