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Ah, I see you get the same spammers I get.
I don’t get it. What benefit do the spammers get by having comment on weblogs? Or do their comments come with a link for their crap?
Generally they come with a link, and Doc is too astute to let the links be seen.Every open forum is vulnerable to spammers, but Doc’s filters obviously work very well.
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Some of their trophies here: Trophy Room
Don’t forget to check out their “Hall of Shame” too.
PLEASE: remember 419Eater’s warning: These guys are criminals. Don’t try scambaiting them unless you really know what you are doing. DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY PERSONAL DETAILS.
Isn’t it usually a tool to sneak past spam filters? Like, aside from that weird word salad, there’s usually a legitimate pitch for some awful product or obvious scam.
Each spam comes with (at least) a link. Either people click it (and the spammer wins) or it inflates the spammer’s Google rank (and the spammer wins) because that way many (respectable) sites link back to his.
The word salad is meant to fool both automated spam checkers (but modern Bayesian filters can’t be fooled by that) and the casual moderator (who thinks it’s just another positive feedback).
I selected some of the most finely chopped of the word salad examples. Lots of the time, the comment is “Awesome post!”
“The morgue is filled with compromise.” – Uhhh, WHA???
I thought several of these sounded like the chopped English that a certain Moldavian often uses. 😛
if this sort of “communication” somehow being considered funny
or “cool” these days ?
Neither. Spammers are just annoying and sad.
You realize that most of those comments are being submitted by ‘bots, right? If you did not, does that mean they passed the Turing test?
A friend of mine recently spent most of his day removing similar spam comments from one of his client’s sites (a site he developed and maintains). I asked couldn’t he automate the removal process, but it sounded like the bots are becoming too clever for that to work.
I dabbled in scambaiting a bit back in 2009. I keep meaning to pick it up again, but procrastination wins. I did 2 scam baits, which I’m proud of, but were nothing to write home about. I think I was so in awe of the greats, getting their great trophies and sending scammers on these long trips (the one that sent the guy to a remote area of Chad for 3 months was so epic that it was featured on an episode of This American Life). I got so discouraged that I wouldn’t be able to measure up to the greats that I just gave up.
I didn’t get much in the way of trophies. I did publish my two baits. Here they are:
Lester Digits vs. Clement Morgan Part One and Part Two.
Resturanteur Howard M. Bergers vs Fraizer Williams, Griffon Bank, and Fountain Trust Limited. Howard ran Lord Bravery Smoked Meats and Fishes chain of fine eateries.
On a later scambait, which I never really finished or published, I pulled out Howard M. Bergers again. This time, I got the scammer Johnson Emmanuel to fill out a franchise application for Lord Bravery Smoked Meats and Fishes.
Thrifty, I really enjoyed reading your reports. Entertaining!
Hey, one problem to fix: You put the link to the “part one” document for both parts one and two…so I’m dying to get to read the actual “part two”.