Charles on… anything that comes along

We’ve all received those spams entitled “message subject” - indicating that the spammer who used them was so dim they didn’t realise that you’re meant to change that in the spam software they bought. (Spammers buy spam software. Oh, yes they do.)

Well, here’s a new wrinkle: clueless comment spammers. The site has been under attack for the past day or so from someone who has paid some unwashed virus-bot-controller $300 (at a guess) to get a whole lot of spam posted in the comments here. Hence, hundreds of attempted postings - a handful of which didn’t get bounced immediately and appeared in the comments of old posts. (The botters target old posts. They hope you won’t notice spam appearing there.)

Unfortunately for the spammmer they forgot to include a URL for the spam comments to point to. Durr! That’s $300 you’re not going to see again, pal. And I’m even better protected against all the machines used for trying to post them. Gotta like that.

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• How are would-be spammers registering on my Wordpress blog if I've disabled registering? (15 February 2007; score: 39.77%)
• Google, Yahoo and MSN to fight comment spam with "don't follow" link instruction; spammers unlikely to be worried (20 January 2005; score: 39.38%)
• Why are comment spammers using the 'Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/2.0.1' client? (30 October 2004; score: 33.83%)