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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.

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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!

Akismet + Conditional CAPTCHA is how I weed them out

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.

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.

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/