Comments on: A spammer with a conscience

By: Exploit Your Readers To The Full » Reader Appreciation Project

Exploit Your Readers To The Full » Reader Appreciation Project — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:59:01 +0000

[...] are many kinds of spammers. Some of them may even have a conscience . Some others may be just trying to make a clumsy promotion to their site (which may not be [...]

By: Tim L. Walker

Tim L. Walker — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:18:33 +0000

I get a bunch of these as well – even via email… lol.

By: microdesign webdesign

microdesign webdesign — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:38:52 +0000

haha very funny :D

By: Mubin

Mubin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:01:11 +0000

LOL. Hilarious!

By: Arcade Webmaster

Arcade Webmaster — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:49:20 +0000

This is funny, I’ve seen it before though.

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:26:03 +0000

Appeal to my pitty? No way!!! This is spammers trying to crack the spam filters response strings. What will be blocked and what can they get away with. Then they set up scripts to kill it.

Spammers + Scripting + Social Hacking = BAD NEWS!

http://www.askTheAdmin.com

By: Michael @ Freshome

Michael @ Freshome — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:46:09 +0000

I also spotted this kind of spam comments. If you analyze the psychology behind this you’ll see that the spammer tries to appeal your pitty.

By: Adam Snider

Adam Snider — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:12 +0000

Haha! I’ve seen the same kind of comments caught by Akismet on several of my blogs.

“Sorry for this:” followed by about 12 spam links.

By: Oleg

Oleg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:01:02 +0000

Yea, its just them trying to get past the antispam blockers, and apparently, it works. In all seriousness, if people made a generic comment that would fit 90% of posts, they can get past most of the spam blockers.

By: Darren McLaughlin

Darren McLaughlin — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:08:31 +0000

I’ve also been getting one that says: “Sorry, I have been paid to leave comments in your blog”. LOL, like I care.