Archive for the ‘Warnings’ Category

Responding to WP comment spam

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

I’m starting to learn the way this is done, and have come to a new conclusion — any comment that doesn’t explicitly show thought about the post it’s responding to, or other comments responding to it, unless it’s made by someone I know that I know, will be marked as spam. “Nice post,” or the like from strangers aren’t going to see light of day, and will be reported to the appropriate databases. Comments are here to continue exploring the thoughts in the posts, or to be a connection between the participants in it.

So, if you’re not someone I already know, and you want to make a connection with what you find here, then say something with even a little bit of substance. Otherwise, I’m going to assume that this is from a spammer and, possibly, machine generated.

njdagr and achesto

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Howdy,

So I got friended by these two accounts.  I looked and saw a bunch of familiar folks listed as friends, but the rest of the accounts looked dodgy — no userpics, no details about the individuals to make them sound like anybody I knew, and then I found the journals were identical.  And the posts were nonsensical.  And the second of the three had a “BTW, it would help me if you click this link” that goes to a data gathering website.

So I contacted the person who had friended one of them, and she didn’t know anything more than I do.  So I’m suggesting that these are fake accounts created to point to a likely phishing site. 

Your paranoid tip for the day.

More stupidity.

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Any guesses as to what the next straw from my internet merchant was?

That’s right — they spammed me.  Does no one understand that opt-out is spam?

I’m going to think three times before doing business with them again.

Forward this to everyone in your address book.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

This rocks.