Saturday, August 22, 2009

Blog Spammers

'Kevin' sends spam comments from Taiwan in Chinese regularly - they are filled with links to commercial sites. As soon as I get them - I get comments by email - I go to the post and delete them. Most of Kevin's comments are on old posts, that most readers won't ever see, and if I weren't getting email copies, I wouldn't notice either.

I guess that people are paid to go to blogs and post comments. I'm assuming they haven't found a way to by-pass the captcha coding, so they have to do it by hand. It's like a bee that regularly flies into your house and you have to shoo it away.

This week I got some new spammers. 'Britney' sent about six comments all with links to payday loan sites. 'Suzi' showed up yesterday with a similar modus operandi. There's a short and vaguely relevant comment that is applicable to most any blog post
Blogs are so interactive where we get lots of informative on any topics...... nice job keep it up !!

and then below her signature there's a link to some commercial site. Just now it was to "buy term papers."

I've checked blogger forums and it appears you can't block individual ip addresses. You either block everyone or take them down after the fact.

If anyone reading this knows how I can block these, let me know.
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5 comments:

  1. UnknownSaturday, August 22, 2009 at 7:34:00 PM AKDT

    LOL I just read about your 123456 contest! Pretty cool.

    RE: your post on receiving spam. I don't have a blog, but one of the things I find very interesting is that you can see who visits - at least where they are from I guess. I like to look at the feedjit on others blogs sometimes just for curiosity. Have a great weekend!

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  2. Melissa S. GreenSaturday, August 22, 2009 at 9:38:00 PM AKDT

    I don't know how to block spam commenters on Blogger blogs, but have been well-pleased with the blog spam filters on WordPress (I've got the "standalone" version of WP on my website). It's called Akismet, has some flexibility in settings & is pretty intelligent (for a computer) at telling spam apart from legit comments.

    I used to blog on Blogger, but made the decision to switch over for the purposes of having it native to my website. I thing Akismet is also available for hosted Wordpress blogs (at Wordpress.com). But better yet would be if there was something like that designed to do a similar job for Blogger. Good luck!

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  3. SteveSaturday, August 22, 2009 at 10:22:00 PM AKDT

    You mean like Vista, Michelle?

    Mel, Word Press does look more elegant. But this is relatively simple. Of course, I'm waiting for the day when everything simply disappears, poof.

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  4. MichelleSunday, August 23, 2009 at 10:22:00 PM AKDT

    No secrets on the internet!!

    Michelle

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  5. SteveSunday, September 13, 2009 at 11:23:00 PM AKDT

    This is a post about spammers. This guy finds it and puts up his spam. Cheeky. Just to make my point here's what he posted (without the link):


    james has left a new comment on your post "Blog Spammers":

    Thanks for the follow! I also have my own website. Come visit me at more template Click quick

    This came from New Delhi.

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