cellio: (spam)
Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2011-03-15 09:03 am
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LJ spam

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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[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/ 2011-03-15 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The ways of spammers are bizarre. I personally have not seen any increase (in fact have not seen any for months), but a few times a year my journal or my food journal get a spam, and it is either keyword-based or in some other language. Somehow I am on the grid but mostly off it. My DST and other rants must scare spambots away.
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