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I just gave another donation to Dr. Dave in the fight against comment spam.

I’ve been on Match.com for a couple months. In that time, I’ve gotten 3 spams. I don’t even know what they are trying to sell me, but they sure bother me. Here’s today’s spam from “markinazaokk” on Match.com Hello! My name – Ekaterina, me 28 years. I loved your structure on site Match, and I […]

The state of comment spam is always evolving. Welcome to the next generation. I’ve now gotten 2 comment spams like the following: Comment on Star Wars post URI: http://www.bon[no referal for you!]us.to Comment: Great trailer great film. Many thanks Lee. (I added the [..] bit) This spam was obviously written by a human. I’m guessing […]

It’s true. I love Nigerian bank spam. It harkens back to a simpler time, when spammers put care and attention into their emails. Back then, you would hardly ever see a tawdry misspelled penis pill spam or one of those overwrought image-only foreclosure spams. Nigerian Bank spam writers would build exquisite bundles of lies that […]

You know that my blog must be getting popular… I got 118 comment spams last week. Thank goodness for Spam Karma and Bad Behavior. Not a single spam got through. I don’t know how much e-mail spam I get these days, Spamassassin takes care of most of it while Cloudmark Desktop takes care of about […]

Spam Karma 1 beta 2 has been very good to me, only letting through a couple false negatives and almost no false positives. But it’s good to be pro-active about comment spam. Spam Karma works. I just installed Spam Karma 2. First impression: The new Spam Karma has a lot of knobs and buttons! This […]

Update 12-9-05. See comment #5, below I had an exchange with SierraTradingPost.com recently about comment spam they appeared to be writing. Here is the last letter I wrote to Andy Newlin, Online Marketing Manager at SierraTradingPost.com To paraphrase our conversation: I said: Your company is posting comment spam, which I don’t think is very endearing. […]

Recently, my google search results have been more and more diluted with web spam. :-( To the tune of “Kill da wabbit”, “Kill the spammers, Kill the spammers, Kill the spammers!”

Russian spammer murdered John Leyden, The Register 2005-07-26 Notorious Russian spammer Vardan Kushnir was found bludgeoned to death in his Moscow apartment on Sunday. He was killed by repeated blows to the head, Russian news agency Interfax reports…

I clicked on one of those stupid SPUR-M spam emails. The ingredients are claimed to be: Each tablet contains: Salabmisri 130mg, Kokilaksha 64mg, Vanya Kahu 32mg, Kapikachchhu 32mg, Suvarnavang 32mg Extracts: Vriddadaru 64mg, Gokshura 64mg, Jeevanti 64mg, Shaileyam 32mg Since I had never heard of these ingredients, I googled for them. I was suprised (and […]