Does spam thrive during economic decline?
Are laid off IT workers discovering that sending spam is easier than getting a job these days? It sure seems that way, even with mollom running on all forms around a hundred spam comments get through every week, and they seem to get more clever every time.
I just found the following comment below my review of the Drupal 6 Javascript and jQuery book:
Submitted by san diego real estate (not verified) on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 18:55.
The only reason why I like this book is that this book developers deep into the usage of jQuery in themes and modules and there is interesting stuff in there for developers of any experience.
I can understand mollom didn't get that message because even I thought it was a real comment. I was much surprised to
see the comment was posted by "san diego real estate" and that the linked site wasn't even made with Drupal...
Who's to say that is a spam
Submitted by Sean Bannister (not verified) on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 14:15.
Who's to say that is a spam comment? I mean, is this a spam comment :)
I think just because someone links to a business site doesn't make the comment spam unless the comment itself is useless.
- Sean Bannister
True, so I guess the question
Submitted by peach on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 10:46.
True, so I guess the question is where to draw the line. What would you think about a very well written and relevant comment with a backlink to a site that sells v i a g r a by a username that spells buy c h e a p v i a g r a.
I don't dare to spell those words properly on my site because it will probably attract even more spambots!
it is spam
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 04:59.
It's spam if It looks like a Mad Lib with random keywords from the original comment sprinkled in.
I bet you could make a mean spambot looking for posts with keyword "book" and "review" with a long vague run-on sentence comment sprinkling in the 3 most used words in the post...
I'm having the same problem
Submitted by CoolGoose (not verified) on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 14:27.
Spam bots seem to be smarter and smarter, I'm having spam problems with recaptcha and some of them really do seem like authentic ones.
(Excepting the fact that the user is Bob and his website is cheap pills).