{"id":621,"date":"2009-03-02T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2009-03-02T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T01:52:19","slug":"anti-spam-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/03\/anti-spam-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"“anti-spam” spam!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I write this post partly to warn people but also out of amusement!<\/p>\n

Like any public blog, I get people adding spam comments occasionally. Most of it is caught by Akismet so it doesn’t bother me but I received some interesting ones today that I thought I’d share.<\/p>\n

The comment was:<\/p>\n

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Hi nice post, i read your blog from time to time but i was wondering something. I also run a blog on a similar topic, but i get 1,000’s of spam comments and emails every day does that happen to you.. Any ideas to stop it? I currently have commenting disabled but i want to turn it back on.. Thanks!<\/p>\n

Sounds nice enough doesn’t it? Which is why I want to warn people not to fall for it as it is not a genuine request for help.<\/p>\n

There are two main reasons I know it is spam…<\/p>\n

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  1. The email address was nonsense – just random letters typed either side of @ symbol. Someone seriously asking for help would give their contact details<\/li>\n
  2. I got the exact same message (punctuation, spelling, everything) on a different post and from a different person with a different fake email address but the same IP address and the same URL to be added to their comment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It amused me because it is appearing to hate what it is – very circular! And that the spammer has no idea of how silly it is to post it twice under different names in the same blog.<\/p>\n

    So if you get the same request, please delete the comment and don’t click on their links.<\/p>\n

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