Comment spammers get creative
by Stii
Every now and again I check my Akismet spam section in WordPress to see if there is legitimate comments that gets trapped as spam. So I notice a couple of comments from people I know well being trapped as spam. At first I thought that was strange and clicked the Approve link to un-spam it. A bit further down I saw another bunch of comments from well known people also trapped. Then I saw, waaaait a minute! The email addresses and the URL’s does not match up.
I realised that I just fell for their stupid tactic. Ugh, dumb! I should have known to simply trust Akismet. It has never let me down before, why would it now?
Here is a comparison between the two comments. One legitimate, the other fake. If only these spammers would stop doing shady stuff and start applying their immense creativity and skills to real business… Too much hard work I suppose!
I don’t have the Akismet spam filter (as I run a Drupal site), but I’ve noticed legitimate comments (people commenting relevantly on my content) but they link to… well, not spam sites, but definitely not their own sites.
So I have no idea what to do about those comments :P
Hehehe, look its me :).
Its true though, comment spam is a really big pain, before I began using WordPress and Drupal I used a system called CuteNews (http://cutephp.com/) which did not have a spam muncher, so I would have to block at least 20 IPs per day (quite tiresome).
Mollom (http://mollom.com) is also very good :)
Shit is now it blocks your comments Jonathan :( Akismet is great, I must say! I’m sure they’ll have an Akismet plugin Tiny.
Maybe they’ll have one by now… I’m thinking of redesigning my site in any case ;)
@Stii that is a little bummer. I like Akismet, it is really simple.
@Tiny have a look at http://drupal.org/project/akismet, but Mollom will work perfectly for you.
Thanks for the link! Still a bit stuck regarding the whole Drupal vs WordPress debate (my internal debate that is), but guess I will stick with Drupal… not looking forward to migrating my data from Drupal to WordPress :)
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