“Custom” spam?

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  knitapeace · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 5:04 pm

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  In the past few days, I’ve received some comments that are very specific to the content of that day’s blog. However, they come from users who have very spammy-type user names, and they link to sites that seem to be spam (forgive the specificity, but they are “Scotland Loans” and “Morocco Holiday”-you can see why I think this). I moved them to the spam folder, but then I worried I might be overreacting. Is this a new spam trend, where the spammers are actually reading (or paying someone to read) the blog and write a response that seems like a legitimate comment? Do you send these to spam?

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  rosclarke · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 5:15 pm

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  It’s entirely up to you. If you’re not comfortable with having these on your blog, you can send them to spam. If you want the comment without the links, you can edit them.

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 5:17 pm

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  Some just delete them if they’re not sure whether they’re actually spam. I usually do what Rosclarke stated, with a blurb that says something like, “Thanks for your thoughts. BTW, I did remove your links as it felt kind of spam-like. :P”

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  knitapeace · Member · Dec 10, 2008 at 6:03 pm

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  Thanks for the responses. I went into my spam folder right after beginning this thread and discovered that “Scotland Loans” and “Morocco Holiday” both originate from the same gmail address, so I don’t feel bad about relegating them to the spam folder anymore. Appreciate your thoughts.

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  chaotix66 · Member · Jan 12, 2009 at 4:37 pm

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  Knitapeace, many spam-robots search the net and leave related contents that are supposed to fool a blogger to be legitimate content. Often with frightening accuracy. The technology exist. When I wrote about Google AdSense’s down-time last year, one of Google’s bots left a comment with something like “We understand your concern, but the issues will be solved soon”. Why I knew it was a bot? Because the grammar was not 100% correct, and the mail and name was signed “Google Crawling Technology”.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 12, 2009 at 5:04 pm

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  Spammers get more and more sophisticated all the time and in some cases I too have found it hard to tell if they are spam or not. I check the links and if it looks spammy, I mark them spam.

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  pasadenaadjacent · Member · Jan 14, 2009 at 3:24 pm

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  I have one spam company that is leaving a 100 or so spam a day to one particular post. It shows as spam, I treat it as spam but they keep coming. Does my counter read them as official visits? I’d like to block this company entirely if I could.