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Weird Spam

by John Cole|  November 1, 200710:13 am| 20 Comments

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Speaking of spam, is anyone else getting really weird trackbacks to what looks to be websites, but are actually aggregators? It makes clearing the spam filter a lot more difficult.

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  1. 1.

    JSG

    November 1, 2007 at 10:32 am

    Spam just climbed to 95% of all email.

    If you send legitimate email, you are now a statistical anomaly.

  2. 2.

    Incertus (Brian)

    November 1, 2007 at 10:41 am

    I don’t get enough traffic as of yet to need a spam filter. I don’t guess that’s a good thing.

  3. 3.

    Joshua

    November 1, 2007 at 10:41 am

    Yeah, John. My site gets a lot of that, but Akismet handles it all for me pretty well.

    They actually are basically spam… The aggregators exist to bring in ad revenue rather than serving any legit purpose, and in my experience they use the same meaningless boilerplate for every post they aggregate. “This was an interesting post, but I didn’t really understand it…” (Yeah, maybe because you’re just a spambot.)

  4. 4.

    Michael Demmons

    November 1, 2007 at 10:43 am

    I get it all the time. It always starts with “Here’s an interesting post…”

    When people find my posts interesting, you know it’s spam.

  5. 5.

    laneman

    November 1, 2007 at 10:50 am

    don’t allow comment here

  6. 6.

    b-psycho

    November 1, 2007 at 11:10 am

    I keep getting comments w/ links on mine, where the comment says “I couldn’t understand some parts, but it’s interesting”.

    The sucky thing is I have Spam Karma turned up pretty high, yet it approves every one of those.

  7. 7.

    Tom Hilton

    November 1, 2007 at 11:12 am

    Not trackbacks as such, but when I do a Google Blog search I find all kinds of robo-blog-type aggregators appropriating my stuff.

  8. 8.

    Evinfuilt

    November 1, 2007 at 11:42 am

    I run a blog server at the Library I work at.

    “I couldn’t understand some parts, but it’s interesting”.

    That’s 50% of our spam right there. Another large group seem to mix the post title with some prescription drug in a rather unintuitive method.

    I find “Cataloging” works better with Celebrex ;)

    Now of course, this post will be marked as spam.

  9. 9.

    brendancalling

    November 1, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    I get at least one a day, and they always use tiny excerpts.

    I am convinced these aggregators are the source for the gibberish spamm that arrives in all of our bulk emails. You know the stuff, a bunch of run on sentences and incomplete thoughts?

  10. 10.

    Psycheout

    November 1, 2007 at 2:19 pm

    [name] wrote an interesting post today. Here is an excerpt:

    I get these all the time. They drive me nuts. Even worse is when they link to a comment. Spammers and fake bloggers must be killed.

  11. 11.

    Psycheout

    November 1, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    “I couldn’t understand some parts, but it’s interesting”

    I get that a lot and

    I don’t know it just sounds like a crazy idea for me! :-)

    It sounds crazy for me too. That’s why I delete you every time moronbot.

  12. 12.

    Stephen

    November 1, 2007 at 3:12 pm

    Using WordPress, you can install two plug-ins:

    – Akismet, which is a powerful, and learning blocker.

    – a “Close Comments” thingie, set to 10, or 20, or 60 days, or whatever you like

    Those two things really solve comment & trackback spam.

  13. 13.

    Psycheout

    November 1, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    Akismet has yet to learn of some of the more recent spam trackbacks. But I will admit it’s pretty good. It’s depressing that the number of comments at B4B was outpaced by the number of spam. The spam overtook legitimate comments a couple of months ago.

    I wish the WordPress stats had a graph of the total number of comments vs. total spam. That would be interesting. And by that, I mean depressing.

  14. 14.

    Ron Beasley

    November 1, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    I killed trackback a few months ago. The Technorati Post Cosmos Links widget does the trackback automatically. No spam – if someone links to a post it’s there. Some agregattors like memeorandum will show up.

  15. 15.

    Leisureguy

    November 1, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    Yeah, I get those frequently — 2-3 a day. A pain.

  16. 16.

    protected static

    November 2, 2007 at 12:14 am

    Bad Behavior, baby! Stops lots o’ bots dead in their tracks… There’s a huge difference between the amount of spam my blog gets (with both BB & Askimet) and the horror blog I help run w/ Carnacki of Daily Kos (which uses Askimet alone).

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