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Weird Comment Spam?

04 Jul

I have been getting some weird comment spam lately. Check out the above two comments for this post. It looks relevant plus got my name right. They are posted from different IP addresses and the site link points to different urls: http://www.treadmill-online.com/ and http://www.isitbirdflu.com/. Both of these actually point to the same blog like site with a lot of google ads! Obviously splogs.

I am thinking, I got captcha enabled in the comments section. But we know that this can be easily handled by a bot. But the related comments? Well initially these comments ended up in the wrong posts. I can not decide if this is a bot or a human making these comments. Could be a combination of these two?

Anyone else get these types of comment spam? What do you think of these?

Update: Comment spam puts comment spam on notice. Check this out, a comment spam for this post. Very funny. Of course it points to the same site.

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14 Comments

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  1. shakti

    July 5, 2006 at 9:03 AM

    hey vasanth, were those comments spam? they looked quite relevant to ur post. they didn’t seem unwanted. it seemed as if someone read ur post and commented on it! generally spams are irrelivent. these were strange!

     

  2. shakti

    July 5, 2006 at 9:07 AM

    hey, one thing, if it was a bot, how cud it enter the code shown below.

     

  3. Vasanth

    July 5, 2006 at 9:14 AM

    Yes they were spam. I read in some blog that it is simple to create programs that can read captcha i.e., the code shown below.

     

  4. shakti

    July 5, 2006 at 9:21 AM

    But then how cud they be so relevant to ur post?

     

  5. Vasanth

    July 5, 2006 at 9:23 AM

    I don’t know yet. Have to find out.

     

  6. Daniel Brown

    July 5, 2006 at 9:40 AM

    Hi Vasanth
    Just wanna say that even if spammer is promoting his site via your site without harming your site and writing irrelevant about your site that means he is indirectly promoting your site as well, Not compulsory that a spammer can harm your site only he can rather promote your site as well by providing link of your site on his site! Wanna say something!!

     

  7. chenni

    July 5, 2006 at 10:41 AM

    Theres always two sides in an argument. And it depends on how one looks at things. I see SPAM as annoying and unacceptable. And I don’t think that a link in a splog will be a publicity for my site, it would be a demoter :-D

    Now I understand why Blogger’s captchas are tough to interpret even though sometimes it makes people go mad.

     

  8. Vasanth

    July 6, 2006 at 5:39 AM

    Hmmm… I think I will leave the comments alone after this. Anyway the links does have ‘ rel="nofollow"’ in them. So it will not do much to promote these sites.

     

  9. marko schulz

    July 6, 2006 at 11:20 AM

    Regarding that the comments seem relevant: ELIZA is now 40 years old and already made remarks that "felt" relevant. An enhanced version to create comments like the ones above should be possible. At least to create them semi-automatically.

    Concerning captcha circumvention: There is a good section about this on the wikipedia page. It can be done either manually (I find the pron hack to be particular funny) or automated. The captcha below this post looks like a simple noise filter should almost be enough to make it OCRable.

     

  10. Vasanth

    July 6, 2006 at 2:02 PM

    Good point. I will check out wikipedia.

     

  11. shakti

    July 9, 2006 at 2:44 AM

    Hey vasanth, u r so fond of F1. why don’t u play mobil 1 fantasy gp on http://www.espnstar.com. here u will need to register and then u can create 3 teams with one id, u can substitute ur racers as u want. i dun have much knowledge of F1 and that’s the reason why my ranks are 34000 32000 and 35000.why dun u give it a try? moreover its for free!

     

  12. Joel

    July 9, 2006 at 12:06 PM

    Some rather interesting spam comments there. Is the Captcha feature provided by DasBlog?

    BTW, I’m back to surfing blogs after a 6 month stint and wanted to catch up on the rest of your blog but keep getting errors on your archived posts.

     

  13. Vasanth

    July 9, 2006 at 7:03 PM

    Yes, Captcha is a DasBlog feature.

    I will check out the archives problem. Thanks for letting me know.

     

  14. Vasanth

    July 9, 2006 at 7:05 PM

    shakti ,

    I know about the espnstar game but I am just too lazy to play it. :-( I did try it a few years back.