Spam Bots With No Brains?
Jan 28th, 2007 by Alvin Chong
When you have blogs that are public listed on other sites as well as search engines, it’s only natural that you get a number of spams every now and then. As much as I hate spams, I guess it’s just a part and parcel of life now. You get an email address and somehow, some people just manage to spam you. Even with a physical address, some people just won’t fail to spam you with adverts from ah long, direct sales, etc.
Spammers have gone the extra mile to ensure that their spams look innocently legitimate. One such spam would look something like this:
The name and also the content of the comment looks perfectly legitimate in isolation. In fact, I felt so honoured by the comment that “he” appreciates indepth views such as mine. Upon further inspections on the post “he” was commenting on, it immediately occured to me that this is some kinda spam. Why? Because the comment was for this post. I quote myself:
“So, barely 4 weeks after I touched down in Kuching, off I go again to KL. This time, it’s gonna be a long one. Naturally, I blog less when I am in KL because I lag an internet connection off office hours and also I barely have the time for it. I’ll try to blog as much as I can and I hope I can. Now, can anyone who is in KL leave me a comment? We can probably meet up or something!”
That post had no indepth views whatsoever. In connection, the comment became absolutely stupid. Spammers, let me teach you a lesson or two. Write spam bots that are smarter and choose your posts with care so that the comment is relevant. No way is such a stupid comment on such a post gonna bypass Akismet. It’s such a shame but thanks for the spam, NOT!!!
hey itz me
just wanna experiment with it… ok…
join my casino and get a free condom. You will like to use my special underwear.
buy it at http://relaxing.blogsome.com/
/end of testing/
juz for fun
Yours got through because you have a legitimate email and URL. It is when I report you that your comments will eventually be treated as spams the next time round. Anyway, I have moderated the buying URL to your site…
haha stupid spam bot… now here i SPAM SPAM SPAM!
u in kch now ah??
ho ho ho.. there got spam ppl! even worse hahahha
HO HO HO… naeboo also wanna spam me… wahahah..
haha.. i got that too…. akakaka
spam should be something like:
hey i liked your insight on your thought about “insert subject matter here” really funny, keep up the nice blogs.
and then the advertisement to go check their site.
i’m jealous. i want spammers too. (your blog must be listed in a lot of sites)
I’ll spam u!!!!