Thank goodness, Akismet keeps blog spam at bay. But every once in a while, I look through the spam holding pen to check out the most recent catches. I have to say, those spammers are getting quite creative, even if their grammar, excessive use of exclamation marks and the web addresses associated with their attempted [...]
Tag Archives: Spam
Watch out for these scams
Akismet has stopped more than 36,000 spam comments from being posted on my site over the two years I’ve been blogging, a milestone reached yesterday. (Happy anniversary to me!) I scan through the “holding pen” every once in a while, and usually the spam is obvious. But recently one of the stopped messages took a [...]
Who falls for spam?
Akismet (“You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet”) has caught more than 8,800 spam messages for me since I activated it on my blog in May, and what a great tool it is. Every once in a while, I look through the messages Akismet has [...]
More spam scams to avoid
There’s a new category of scams making the rounds (well, it was new to me): hostile messages supposedly from an eBay buyer saying things like “I want my money back because I did not received (sic) my item until now. I will report you to eBay as fraud if you will not respond.” A major [...]
Creative spam
Just for fun, I had a look through the 58 spam messages that were in Akismet‘s holding pen and was amused to find these attempts to get through spam filters (amid mostly offers for various prescription drugs): “Very sensible post…” “Hello! Good Site! Thanks you!” “Amazing info, and a great blog to boot…” I love [...]
Amusing spam
Feeling battered today after returning from Montreal last night — going there took five hours, coming home took seven, because the highway had been closed for many, many hours after an accident. Although the section was opened by the time we got there, you’d never know it from the traffic. But I digress. I wanted [...]
Next adventure: Nova Scotia
Sue’s busy summer continues, with another break in blogging on the horizon: I’m off to Nova Scotia for a wedding. So I’ve been busy making sure all my projects are up to date (and I’m pleased to say, some are even ahead of schedule). Just checked my feeds and tried to catch up on all [...]
A great tool to get rid of comment spam
After coming back from Las Vegas to 200 pieces of smelly comment spam, I knew it was time to get help. Thanks to Joan Donogh of In Formation Design, who designed and hosts this site, I discovered that WordPress has a built-in filter for comment spam. All I had to do was register for a [...]
I’ve been comment spammed!
The only surprise is that it took so long: I’ve just received my first “comment spam,” which Wikipedia says is “done by automatically posting random comments” in the hopes of increasing a site’s search engine ranking. Of course, that only works if the comment gets posted and readers actually click through to the highlighted site. [...]