Is This A New Kind Of Blog Spam… “Comment Copy Spam”?
Has anyone else noticed a new type of blog comment spam where the spam comment directly copies a previous comment on the same post?
You can see an example here…
Notice how the first comment and the last comment are identical?
The first comment is genuine, the last comment is spam, and I’ve removed the link to the website from it.
I’m thinking that this must be automated, but I use a captcha plugin which requests a little code is entered before accepting a comment, so, unless that has been hacked, the person must be visiting the site.
It’s the second time I’ve seen “comment copy spam” at the blog and I’m wondering if it’s a new type of blog spam. Preumably the spammer is copying an earier comment to try to be “relevant” to the blog post.
Is anyone else seeing it?
June 1st, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Great Post,
I have never seen comment copy spam before. Did you check the IP on whois to find out where it came from?
The only other thing I could think of is, someone copied the block to quote that in a reply and hit submit by accident.
July 1st, 2008 at 6:04 am
I have not seen this one yet, but I am not surprised, thanks for the heads up!