A new kind of spam - cool, something for me to do!
I have recently been getting off-the-wall comments posted to posts that have nothing to do with the comment.
Today's example came in on a post from a few months ago talking about local stuff. The text of the post was how this person was a newcomer and they hoped they didn't do anything wrong and if they did, they hoped that we would help them.
If you were going to post something like that, you would either email the sysop or you would post it to a recent blog entry, not something from two months ago.
I googled the first sentence of their comment and got 47 hits -- all identical comments to blogs and all irrelevant. I Googled the given name and got about 7,000 hits, the twenty or so that I looked at were all within the last couple of days. They were registrations to various websites.
What seems to be going on here is that the seeder is posting comments on blogs and the bots will then come along, search for a key phrase or name and drop their odious little package of joy.
What makes this latest one so deliciously ironic is that one of these websites was this one:
www.stopforumspam.com. These fine folks are fighting the same war against stupid script kiddies and I will be spending a lot of time with them trading ideas, strategies and lists.
So, instead of gaining a new foothold by avoiding the random four to six characters and gibberish URLs and the multiple fora links, these idiots came up with a new idea that was heretofore untraceable but just got blown out of the water.
I am still busy loading stuff on the new computer and preparing for the get together this weekend but I should have a couple more lines of PERL in the next day or two. This will be fun!
Posted by DaveH at June 17, 2009 9:14 PM