dbskyler: (Sarah from Hand of Fear)
dbskyler ([personal profile] dbskyler) wrote2012-12-29 11:54 am
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insulting spam!

I just got a spam insult! Here's what they said (followed by a link, which of course I didn't click on):

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The next time I learn a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I imply, I do know it was my choice to learn, but I truly thought youd have something interesting to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you would repair when you werent too busy looking for attention.
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Is this a new tactic to get around LJ's spam filters? If so, it seemed to work, as it wasn't automatically screened as a suspicious comment. However, the other big spam red flags were present: bad grammar, lack of punctuation, and a comment from a new person to a post that is several years old. You'd think those would all be things that LJ could add to their algorithms (especially the last one, which is the single biggest indicator of spam, at least in my journal).
lolmac: (Computer Fix)

I learned all my blogs in skool, i did

[personal profile] lolmac 2012-12-29 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oy. That's definitely spam, but it's certainly a brand new "tactic". I'm especially surprised that the link made it through.

Did you report the bot as well as canning the spam?

Re: I learned all my blogs in skool, i did

[identity profile] dbskyler.livejournal.com 2012-12-30 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm not a community, so I think links do generally go through.

Yes, I reported the bot. :D
lolmac: (Call Waiting)

not a commune either, I bet

[personal profile] lolmac 2012-12-30 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
BTW, I've had a major spike in spam on LJ today. At least this time none of the bot accounts actually joined Fic Rush!!