Re: new form of blog comment spam

**R* M* M* <r*@comcast.net>**

I"m running into a couple of these links and I can't find them on my  
site! I know they are there because people linked from them on my  
site. I need to commit a good chunk of time to this. Thought I'd  
mention that finding them so they can deleted and marked as spam may  
not be obvious but they're pretty nervy to pull a stunt like this..
Rose Marie Nichols McGee
http://nicholsgardennursery.wordpress.com/
On Jun 27, 2008, at 6:10 AM, Doug Green wrote:

> Just a head's up that the outsourcing crowd has a new form of  
> blogging spam.
>  It isn't machine-generated but is human generated.  A real person  
> actually
> makes a reasonable sounding post about one of your topics BUT the  
> name of
> the blogger is a product or website and the url posted is to a  
> sales website
> rather than a blog.
> This is an attempt to pick up inbound links -and a very well  
> disguised one
> at that.  The sites in question were gardening websites but sales  
> sites
> plain and simple.
>
> I let two of these get by me before I went "whoa!" - went back and  
> deleted
> them.  I have Akismet set up on my wordpress blog but I"m now going  
> to be
> looking for a ip ban plugin similar to the one I had installed on  
> the forum
> I run.  If anybody is running an ip ban plugin and thinks it works,  
> please
> id it here.  Thanks
>
> Doug
>
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