LJ spam

[cellio]

In the last month or so I've seen a large increase in the number of spam comments I get. (That's why I had to set anonymous comments to be screened, though it delays some legitimate comments.) I understand that this has been happening all over LJ. What puzzles me is why a majority of my spam comments have targeted this short, older entry on an obscure topic -- but an entry that is not so complete or keyword-laden to be clearly the definitive web page on the topic or anything like that. I mean, what search produces that page as a top candidate, and why would spammers selling dating services and shoes and Viagra care about those search terms? I just don't get it; what's so special about that one among my 3000+ journal entries?

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[dragonazure.livejournal.com]

I think all the online forums where public posting is enabled has been hit with these types of campaigns. I'm pretty sure all the old D'land addresses have been compromised. I set my comments settings to screen out anonymous comments, so it reduces the chances I'll get annoyed by these things.