The spammers are getting bolder and smarter.  One of them actually managed to fool me into thinking a comment was legitimate – until he/she entered an identical comment on a different post several days later.

And they’re becoming more prolific – according to the Askimet stats, I received 4,147 spam comments last month, as opposed to 155 legitimate (ham) comments.  I fail to see what the spammers hope to accomplish – I’m the only blogger I know who actually reads the spam comments that make it to my comments filter, and of course, I delete 99% of them.  The other 1% become my monthly targets.

And it’s that time of the month again – on your mark, get set, go:

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Comment:

“Very good! I think the same.”

Response:

I think not.

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Comment:

“It’s nearly impossible to find experienced people on this subject, however, you sound like you know what you’re talking about!”

Resonse:

Well, since you wrote this on one of my Spam-Bam posts, I guess I do know what I’m talking about.

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Comment:

“This post is priceless. Where can I find out more?”

Response:

This comment was written on the very first post I ever wrote on this blog.  Therefore, you have a whole year’s worth of posts to catch up on – start reading and stop spamming!

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Comment:

“Fine way of describing, and nice post to take information about my presentation topic, which i am going to convey in college.”

Response:

This also was written on one of my Spam-Bam posts.  All I can say is, I didn’t know they had college courses in spamming.

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Comment (Excerpt)

“If you’ve got made your mind to buy new sofa for your family area then here I am providing you some tips on the way to get bet sofa for your room.”

Response:

*Gasp*  How did you know Puppy Cody ate part of my couch?

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Comment:

“This is the right blog for anyone who hopes to find out about this topic.  You realize so much its almost tough to argue with you (not that I actually would want to…HaHa). You definitely put a new spin on a subject that’s been discussed for a long time.  Wonderful stuff, just great!”

Response:

Smart spammer.  It’s always best not to argue with Cordelia’s Mom.

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Comment (Excerpt):

“Greetings from Ohio! I’m bored to death at work so I decided to browse your site on my iphone during lunch break.”

Response:

Last month, you said you were bored at work in Colorado.  Guess you still haven’t found your dream job, have you?

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Comment:

“Awesome post.”

Response:

Short and sweet.  Gotta love it.

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Comment:

“does white chocolate liqueur go bad.”

Response:

I sure hope not, but I’d never keep any around long enough to find out.

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Comment:

“What a material of un-ambiguity and preserveness of valuable familiarity about unpredicted feelings.”

Response:

Please un-subscribe me.

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I could easily go on for another 3 pages, but I’ll save some for October lest I run out of material (not much chance of that!).

(As usual, apologies to the appropriate commenter if any of the foregoing weren’t, in fact, spam.  I realize that some comments suffer in translation, and I try to take that into account when determining what is spam and what is legitimate.)

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