Found a couple of comments this morning that consisted of the usual generic phrases:
Please check some relevant pages dedicated to…
You may find it interesting to check the sites about…
The weird thing: No links. No author name, no author URL, no links in the comment itself. Nothing that would clue in content filters to block it…but then nothing that would accomplish anything, either.
6 related subject lines in my inbox today, all sent to my work address.
CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON
CONGRATILATION YOU ARE A WINNER !!!
CONGRATILATION YOU ARE A WINNER !!!
WINNING NOTIFICATION: Congratulations
CONGRATILATION YOU ARE A WINNER !!!
CONGRATILATION YOU ARE A WINNER !!!
Amazing how one can win six lotteries in the same day without entering even one…
The four with the same subject are all identical, claiming to be some lottery in Madrid, but the “Winning Notification” one is truly strange: it claims to be the New Mexico Lottery, based in Geneva, the drawing held in Melbourne, with the prize money in euros. And at the end it refers to itself as the Colorado Lottery.
As a WordPress user I haven’t had much first-hand experience with MT-Blacklist (a system for combatting comment spam on Movable Type, though the data has been adapted for use on other toolkits), but it was enough to be suspicious when I found this in my inbox:
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I remember reading a post a while back where someone looked at one of those “personals” spams—the ones that claim some sexy girl has seen your profile and wants to *ahem* “meet” you, and the variations that claim the rendezvous has already been arranged. Whoever it was noticed that one message used four or five names for the same (probably fictitious) woman.
We get a lot of these in some of our spamtraps, and I would’ve just skimmed right by this one except that they’ve upped the ante with two temptresses named Erika & Julia. In fact, that’s exactly how they were referred to every single time, even the line about how you can “get a better look at her beautiful body before you head over.”
Wait a minute. “Her body, ” singular? I thought this was two girls? Are they conjoined twins? Do they psychically share the same mind? Is Erika&Julia sort of a Samneric thing? And why does the message quote someone named Janice? Is she trying to make her profile more attractive by making men anticipate attending to the needs of two women instead of one? I’m confused, and that spamtrap is going to be very disappointed. 😉
Going through the spam traps today, I noticed one message which was sent to 5 addresses on our system. Those addresses broke down as:
Is it any wonder that people don’t trust opt-out directions?
