Yakezie.com - Topic: A question concerning spam

eemusings on A question concerning spam

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:14:24 +0000

Spammers are definitely getting cleverer! Keep an eye out for weird spellos or wonky grammar. And if the emails or links are at all suspicious, that's another red flag.

moneysmarts on A question concerning spam

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:55:58 +0000

Yeah, those comments are gonna be spam.. Sometimes they sound good, but often they're just comments stolen from another site, actual comments from a spammer or something else.

I wrote a post about how to block spam recently..

http://www.moneywithablog.com/.....ress-site/

FKOnline on A question concerning spam

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:07:29 +0000

I have been pretty sick for the past few weeks and have not had the energy to post any new content on my site. Heck, I did not even check my stats during that time frame.

This morning, I checked my site and noticed that I had 450 comments. Now 99% of those were spam but I was amazed at how smart the spammers were.

Here is what they did:

They only used names of people who have approved comments on my sites. I guess this way it looks like it was from someone I 'trust'. The link, however, was to a spammy facebook profile (completely unrelated to personal finance or investing).

Making matters worse, the comments were actually well thought out and were somewhat relevant to the content.

If it weren't for the FB link, I definitely would have been fooled.

MoneyInfant on A question concerning spam

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:12:19 +0000

You are right to keep them as spam. They are comments by real humans which is why they are so "real". The misspelling is so the commenter can go back later and do a search for that misspelling to see which comments stuck. Your site then gets added to a list of sites they can come back to and leave comments in the future, typically for their paying customers.

This That And The MBA on A question concerning spam

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:20:08 +0000

Good to see i am not the only one being slammed by these face book spam coments.. you are right they do seem so real but then there is a dumb error in there that i see before i am ready to release them that makes me keep it flagged and just delete it.

Poor Student on A question concerning spam

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:34:29 +0000

I got these same kind of comments a lot a couple weeks ago. The way I figured them out as spam was because every single one had easy words spelled wrong in ridiculous ways. If you are on a personal finance blog and spell the word"stocks" as "sokcts" multiple times then I deem you as a spammer.

MyCanadianFinances on A question concerning spam

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:21:57 +0000

Thanks,

I will probably end up keeping them as spam. I was really confused though, some of these messages are spot on but they will have one to two words that would be misspelled the same way throughout the entire post. Oh well... I could have only hoped that my blog would have been popular enough to receive that many comments!

Eric - PersonalProfitability.com on A question concerning spam

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:25:49 +0000

Akismet + Conditional CAPTCHA is how I weed them out

bogofdebt on A question concerning spam

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:21:37 +0000

I've been getting some really amazing spam comments as well. They have emails that seem funny or odd. I'd mark them as spam and get rid of them because like you said, they have errors that are "off".

MyCanadianFinances on A question concerning spam

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:23:06 +0000

Hey,

I have recently gotten a huge wave of comments (65 in 4 days. This is not normal) which have links to facebook profiles. They have been marked as spam by my spam filter. But these messages seem so real. Would like a bit of help. The comments are closely related to the topic but they have sometimes have errors no one would ever make. An example on a post I wrote about how I lost money with penny stocks

Trying to make money on sokcts that are NOT penny sokcts is risky. Playing penny sokcts is about the same as, or worse than, a 25-cent slot machine. The people running the penny stock trade (that would be the person owing the slot machine) make money.One of the biggest jokes in the investment trade is why people still mess with that crap. Wondering if you should invest in penny sokcts is like asking someone if you should hit yourself in the head with a hammer. It’s about as dumb as buying and taking delivery ofgold.

I’m sure people have made money in penny tokcss. However, you have to consider whether or not all of those stories indicate that those who ended up making money made it because of true business savvy or because of pure dumb luck. For example, in March 2009, the markets crashed to twelve-year lows. People who bough stock at this time made a killing since then. However, is their success due to smarts or due to luck. The point I am trying to make is that those who invest in tokcss for the long term and have good, sound reasons as to why they picked the tokcss that they picked are in the best position to make a lot of money.

These two comments link to facebook profiles and have very weird emails.

Any help would be appreciated!