Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Too Stupid to Spam?

Comment spam is a given in the blogging world, but sometimes it's more blatant than others, and sometimes it's just so flat-out stupid that it's more entertaining than annoying.

About a month ago, a friend and I started a new dating and relationship blog. Of course, online dating is an area ripe for spam, and so we started getting hit almost immediately--so soon that I wasn't sure how they were finding us. One of the places we were getting consistent spam from was called University Love Connection, and it always said the same thing: "This is a great blog, we are going to add it to out free online dating internet and college information blog www.universityloveconnection.com/blog so our visitors can read your news, as you are a reputable source. Thanks online dating" (With a couple of live links, of course--I've stripped them out here not so much to discourage spam as to discourage stupidity)

I initially thought it was all coming from the same person, but I soon learned otherwise: apparently the Director of Comment Spam for the site sends out instructions. But apparently their hiring criteria are pretty lax, because yesterday we received this comment:

Here is the post to Make on every one : This is a great blog, we are going to add it to out free online dating internet and college information blog www.universityloveconnection.com/blog so our visitors can read your news, as you are a reputable source. Thanks online dating

Cutting and pasting, apparently, is an art too sophisticated for some.

10 comments:

Ekim941 said...

I saw that and didn't catch on until I read this post. I read the line several times and didn't' know what to make of, "Here is the post to make on every one:"
You're right, they must be coming from different people being lead by a spamming mastermind.

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The only spam I like is the ones from the can, crisped up with loads of ketchup..

fibinse said...

Why don't you think of moving to Wordpress, where Akismet will beat the crap out of all that spam?

Tiffany said...

Actually, I got that comment on the one blog I have that IS on Wordpress.

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