Category Archive: Spam

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Very, very cgbadgc good!

dumbFound two quite interesting spam comments (captured by the almighty Akismet, of course) today. Both submitted at the same minute from users with the normal spammy randomized email addresses (name + random letter + random number @ aol.com). The IP addresses from the submitters originate from New Zealand and Germany.

“Hello! cgbadgc interesting cgbadgc site! I’m really like it! Very, very cgbadgc good!”

“Hello! adgekdd interesting adgekdd site! I’m really like it! Very, very adgekdd good!”

At first you’d think there’s not that many bloggers nowadays that don’t use any kind of spam filters and at the same time autoapproves comments from on unknown users. Well, think again. A simple search on the following line: “Hello! * interesting * site! I’m really like it! Very, very * good!” gives 8.2 million results.

The stupidity never ceases to amaze.

When automated spam goes slightly wrong

The interwebs is a complicated place.

Hello!, I’ve gone ahead and bookmarked %BLOGURL% on Digg so my friends can see it too. I just used %BLOGTITLE% as the title in my bookmark, as I figured if it is good enough for you to title your blog post that, then you probably would like to see it b…