Clever blog comment spam
Monday, February 4th, 2008Hello,
comment spam in blogs is a real problem but I use Akismet and it works amazingly good.
But occasionally even Akismet misses a spam comment. Here is one which almost made me admire the unknown spam bot author:
“Hi…I found your site via Yahoo! when i was searching for models modeling, and this post regarding Oclarity 1.8.4 released really sounds very interesting to me.. Thanks.”
They mentioned the theme of my blog (”models modeling”, although I assume it was meant in a different way…) and they did not even add a single URL to the comment body. The only reference to the site they want you to visit was in the “URL” field of the comment.
I assume that Akismet will quickly learn that the used URL belongs to a spam comment and that such a comment will be correctly flagged as spam in the future.
Best regards,
Andreas
