Sneaky spammers getting smarter
Try saying that headline five times fast! Spammers are becoming more aware of the steps us bloggers and developers are taking to keep them of off our blogs and articles.
if you are on WordPress, then you should be using akismet which is a software made by Automattic (the creators of wordpress). That is the best wordpress plugin you can have to stop spam. other plugins and software include: Bad Behavior (use at your own risk, can be very buggy) and Spam Karma, and of course captchas. But these spammers are trying to make a living too, and they are figuring out new ways to get around our defenses. One of the latest trends I have seen are spam messages that seem complimentary to your blog, but actually contain links spam sites that could put malicious spyware in your readers’ computer. They stroke your ego to try and make sure you don’t delete their comments. So keep an eye out for comments that are a little too nice. Here are a couple examples;
“so impressive and beautiful thank you for preparing a site admin.”
“I wish to continue your success permanent”
Mouse over the the author’s name and you’ll most like see a shady-looking url that probably sells Viagara.
Be sure to mark them as ‘spam’ so that your akismet spam filter will recognize these types of messages more quickly in the future.
Not all complementary posts are going to be malicious, but if you have a wordpress blog, this is definitely something you need to watch out for.