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  • Thread Starter JanChristian

    (@janchristian)

    I forgot about comment blacklisting (IP)…

    Yep, I have received several, sometimes duplicate, comments from that same IP address. You can see some of their recent activity on http://www.stopforumspam.com/

    At first I thought it was real, but the repetition with different names and the same IP address gave it away.

    I received one of these as well and wonder what the purpose of this spam is if it just includes google as the website. Either way the comment was actually kind of sort of almost relevant sounding and it was the first I had received from that IP that I could see so although I was suspicious (the email address was really the only thing that set off any alarm bells in my head) I did let it through. I guess I’ll go back and remove it now!

    I’m also wondering what the point of this spam is. I’ve received one a day from a different “person” for the last three days, all with comments that compliment my posts but are not related (Great info here, blah, blah, blah) and with the same links and information. Poor grammar too. 🙂

    I’ve gotten these same posts.

    I saw the Google.com link and wondered how weird that was.

    I’m sure the purpose of leaving these comments is just to be annoying. Luckly, my spam filter marked them as spam and I just deleted them.

    I’m going to be checking my website more often to make sure these things don’t just sit there.

    I got one of these too. My guess is they hope to have a legit looking comment approved so later spam comments from same email address will get through.

    I got the same message also about being copyright protected, and from the same person, thought it was very weird, i just marked it off as spam

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