Sometimes I read the spam comments before deleting them, because I enjoy their wonderfully eccentric use of language. This one today was particularly pleasing:
My cousin encouraged I’d personally possibly this way web page. Your dog had been 100 % appropriate. This particular blog post really designed this morning. Anyone can not consider only how the ton period I had created wasted for this information and facts! Thanks!
Judging by the URL, it was some sort of porn site. And no, I didn’t click on it. You can catch something doing that. But in any case, I doubt there was anything there as diverting as that cockeyed attempt to make me think I was dealing with a fan.
That seems to be the usual approach of these things, something like, “Your site am delicious. Me come back many time.”
Does it ever actually work? Are some bloggers and website hosts really that desperate for praise that they’ll go, “This person really LIKES me! To the point that he’s rendered incoherent! I must in return check out his site…?”
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The comment came on this post. “Bill Clinton just gave the best political speech of this century, thus far.” That was last year, at the Democratic Convention. Which is another sign that something is spam.
Oh, and I just noticed that one of Bryan Caskey’s comments ended up in the spam folder somehow. I restored it.
As with Nigerian e-mail scams, there must be sufficient clickage to justify continuing enspamment. It is not without cost to coat the blogosphere with Google Translate’s finest!
Maybe “you really designed” can replace “You rock!” Or maybe not…
Speaking of which, in today’s news: “Nigeria Lands $1.1B In Low-Interest Loan From China, As China Seeks Closer Ties To Africa’s Largest Oil Exporter”
How many new Nigerian fraud scams will this loan finance? How many ‘Nigerian’ hackers will suddenly be expert enough to interfere with US infrastructure and confound banking and defense IT architecture?
The oil for capital deal, allegedly for much-needed infrastructure development, will be administered with Nigeria’s usual managerial expertise (think U.N.).
Within ten months, actual results of this loan should be apparent even to the most skeptical. Why? Because Chinese companies were already building roads across Nigeria in contracts worth $1.7 billion.
Well, my dog has always been 100% appropriate so the email wouldn’t have interested me. But the one that did get me a few months ago was with the name of someone I know very well with the greeting “Hi” in it. Without thinking, I clicked on it and within minutes, my Yahoo email account had been hacked and everyone on it received an email with my name and the same greeting. Strange how friends won’t respond to my emails coming from Yahoo now.
gmail, ftw