New spam tricks
I host/manage a memorial blog for a well known speaker here in Australia who recently passed away. As a result I’ve been moderating the comments on the blog.
A week or so ago I noticed a comment from someone I know personally but was posted by someone else. I let it publish because I assumed she had a support person doing it for her – and perhaps they didn’t know how to post it from her address.
But then I saw that overnight someone else had done exactly the same thing using the very same person’s name so I went through all the past comments and found that these two people (I will now refer to as spammers) had copied and pasted parts or whole comments and then posted with their own links. I went back and marked both comments as spam and deleted them.
If I didn’t know this particular person personally chances are I probably wouldn’t have picked up on this new spam trick and would have let the comments be published. You need to be ever vigilant with comment posts to blogs you own, or blogs you are managing for other people.
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