Spam Tactics

I discovered an interesting new blog-spamming tactic today. Notice a pattern here? All of these comments appeared on a single article. (The underlined words were links to another website.)

This is very smart and deceptively simple. It contains the key to unlocking business models in the ‘pirate’ world and ’ long tails’ :- ) I suspect VCs should have these bullet points as a mental checklist before funding a project
Posted by Dennis on February 2, 2008 at 2:25 PM

This is very smart and deceptively simple. It contains the key to unlocking business models in the ‘pirate’ world and ’ film izlelong tails’ :- ) I suspect VCs should have these bullet points as a mental checklist before funding a project
Posted by film izle on December 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM

This is very smart and deceptively simple. It contains the key to unlocking business models in the ‘pirate’ world and ’ long tails’ :- ) I film izle suspect VCs should have these bullet points as a mental checklist before funding a project film izle
Posted by thanks on December 18, 2008 at 3:35 AM

Answer: Spammers are duplicating existing comments but randomly inserting links to the spammer’s website. I even saw a few (spam) comments that mixed together two earlier comments. Darn spammers – always looking for a way around our filters.

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