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Hidden Comment Spam

Here’s another innocent-looking comment I received today, to an old post (first suspicious sign!):

Re: M-listers and Down-linkers
by Anonymous on Sun 28 May 2006 02:33 PM PDT  
Cool…Very useful article, thanks!

WTF?  Typically these meaningless, generic comments indicate spam, but in this case the commenter remained anonymous, and there is no link back to any site, so who benefits?

Blogware’s email comment-notification helped: for some reason it messes up html comments, so this is what I received:

Poster’s IP Address: 80.37.131.49
Article URL: https://www.zoliblog.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/1/1791102.html
Author: Anonymous
Title: Re: M-listers and Down-linkers

Body:
Cool…Very useful article, thanks!<div style=”position: absolute; top: -1000px; left: -1000px; visibility: hidden;“> Please don’t delete my comments! Maximum 7 such comments at your blog! More info download register today to earn up to $100 playing poker online…  etc.. then of course linking to the online poker site.

How tricky…

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    Hello!

    I am spammer! And I want say YOU BIG thanks for your article!

    We learn such article and apply new technogies for best spaming.

    Good luck:-)

  2. Anonymous says

    How funny… let me tell you, if you learn about spam technics from me, you’re a small fish…will soon be out of business.

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