Blog Comment Spam On The Rise
The last two days I’ve seen a lot of comment spam, and a lot getting through Akismet. Clearly bayesian techniques are not going to work on this kind of spam, an example of which is:
<strong>free credit report com…</strong>
sorely.banjo!wantonness woo braking Spokane?potatoes Nigerian involved:credit http://www available-credit-report com/ …
See, it includes a variety of random words, some of which are spelled incorrectly, as well as punctuation symbols before delivering the payload, and for some reason Akismet is missing the telltale “free credit report,” which should be an instant flag for spam.
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I’ve been seeing the same rise, but Askimet’s catching all of mine.
Ah ha!
http://akismet.com/blog/2006/05/systems-error/
“We had a systems problem earlier today which caused spam to not get caught for some of our users.”