Spammer on topic
I had a comment on one of the Roy Giles posts. Very on topic, in fact I’ll quote it here:
All spammers are slime, but when you are supposed to be someone with
morals, such as a Christian minister, it sure shows he doesn’t.Most spammers we deal with are more random than what you describe. Some
likely are doing this, but most of them are not.
Problem is, there’s a spammy link (that I’ve removed) in the URL field.
freewebs.com/sportsbook
OK, so maybe he’s a one time spammer? Thought I’d put that to the test, so I searched for his IP number. And found lots of guestbook spam. And then noticed he tended to use this one e-mail address, so I tried that:
sawer@yahoo.com - Google Search
See? He’s a spammer alright. The comment on my blog was absolutely on topic. And hand written. But most of his spam isn’t, as you can see from the selection in Google.
He’s advanced enough he uses encoded javascript to hide his affiliate ID:
searchadv.com
ID: 49996
But he doesn’t use his own domains as cutouts, so he isn’t the most sophisticated spammer I’ve seen in that respect.
March 25th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
That comment was very on topic, and seemed awfully familiar when I read it. Could be because I also remember writing it.
March 25th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Gah, I didn’t even catch that. Didn’t read the preceding comments. You know, doing that to posts with lots of comments could easily make a moderator let the comment through.
March 25th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Yep. We have seen that with spam on our wiki a few times. Unless you are very familiar with the copied text you would never catch it. Any idea if that was a manual spam job or automated? I would almost bet on manual since if they are just randomly copying comments they could end up copying someone else’s spam.
March 25th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Umm, two different user agents used:
Opera/8.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; ru)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
My css file was loaded on the first access. No referrer. Referrers on subsequent accesses. But no images loaded.
Tricky…