Meandering Passage has recently been on the receiving end of some very strange comment spam and I can’t figure out what the spammers are getting out of it unless it’s for testing.
The comment spam has no links within the body of the text and there’s not even a link tied into the user name…no way to get any click-backs from it. The body of the comment spam consist of either random conversational text or complete gibberish. In some cases the comment text appears to be Russian.
I get on average three to five of these types of comment spams a day that make it past the Akismet Spam filter. However, since I have it set that I must approve all comments none of them have been posted.
Have any other bloggers noticed this same strange pattern of spam comments recently and do you know what it’s about?
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Haven’t seen those, Earl … at least not yet, but I do get the occasional one that slips through Spam Karma 2; Usually these are advertising something on Amazon. Go figure. They are getting more and more cleaver.
I’ve only noticed these type of spam comments in the last two to three weeks and can’t see what benefit the spammers are getting from them. Even if they posted successfully there’s zero return for them, unless there’s a sequence in the text that they can search for to identify a successful post and perhaps an unprotected blog??
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