Comment spammers are trying something new.

But I don't LIKE spam!!

But I don't LIKE spam!!

Been seeing an odd form of comment spam show up in SEB’s spam queue lately. The URL is a link back to Bing or Google’s homepage while the comment itself contains no links at all and is often mildly on-topic, but a short one or two liner that doesn’t . . . → Read More: Comment spammers are trying something new.

Spam comment of the moment.

SEB gets hit with a lot of spam comments most of which aren’t particularly interesting or amusing, but occasionally on checking the spam filter I come across one that is worth sharing. This one, for example, is a delightful excursion into surreal gibberish:

I loved as much as you will receive carried out right here. . . . → Read More: Spam comment of the moment.

SEB is getting hammered with comment spam lately.

Here’s a graph showing all the spam SEB has received since the start of September of 2009:

It's like a SPAMQUAKE!

We jumped from a low of 23 last October to a record high this month of 2,056. I just cleaned out another 154 from the spam queue and there’s already 3 new ones . . . → Read More: SEB is getting hammered with comment spam lately.

Weirdest comment spammers ever.

So you may have been noticing that what appears to be some fairly innocuous comments from non-SEB regulars being deleted just about every day for the past week or so. On the surface there’s nothing obviously spammish about these comments, but I’ve been deleting and blacklisting the user names as rapidly as they’ve shown up. . . . → Read More: Weirdest comment spammers ever.