Have any of you noticed an increase or sudden surge of spam messages from YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn addresses to your blogs?
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I’ve gotten a number of comments from sites in Thailand– where I lived for 10 years. The comments almost make sense, but I can see they are nonsense. And my spam catcher lets them through
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There has been a HUGE increase in spam on WordPress in the last year. A lot of it seems to be related to selling knock-offs of fashion items, sports jerseys, etc. The spam catcher catches most of it, but I’m seeing more that sneaks through. I think the weird spelling and phraseology comes from automated translation programs. Usually it says something like: “Brilliant post. I am thinking you write more on this topic.” And if you look at the address, it has something like oakleys or Sacs Louis Vuitton cheap. I don’t think this is even at the troll level — more like brain-damaged robots at work. Just empty your spam bucket and move on.
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I empty my spam bin at least 5 times per day 🙂
I asked because I’ve noticed that in addition to the usual clothes, Ugg boots, Chinese and Cyrillic messages, there has been a recent surge of spam using Facebook and LinkedIn addresses.
This morning there were 132 spam messages in my bin when I kickstarted the blog at 8:00am (I had closed it at 10:00pm the night before after clearing the bin – usually, it’s only around 30 spam items by next morning)
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I don’t know where mine come from…
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Mine comes from all over >:o/
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Where does yours come from? 😉
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Most of mine comes from opportunists hoping to sell me something, usually from places like mainland China. A few totally incomprehensible comments come from total morons who can’t spell and hide behind pseudonyms (trolls). 😉
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None of the above. I’ve no idea where it comes from, but they’re desperate to sell me fashion items by Luis Vuitton!
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Same here – but they don’t have anything my size or colour preference LOL 😀
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Whenever I get a comment from google.com or youtube.com I know it isn’t genuine as those companies are not going to be commenting on my blog! nine times out of ten spammers have weird web addresses with lots of numbers or strange symbols. I never click on them as heaven knows what virus or other nasty might infect my machine where I to do so! Kevin
On 9/26/14, Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog….. An Author
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That’s always the safest way Kevin 😀
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