My blog comment spam filter caught this gem sometime last month:
A little hard to read up there: “It is tiring attempting the compute the hours we’ve used up searching for pell grant web pages.”
Now, I don’t have a lot of patience for spam and self-promotion in my blog comment area. It’s a rampant marketing tactic, but I find it disrespectful and, well, sleazy. I delete a lot of spammy comments around here.
For the online casino folks here, I suppose it’s nice that they at least tried to make their spam look like an actual blog comment written by a human being. They used relevant keywords, anyway.
Right now, I’ll make lemonade out of, err… this spam: if they’re struggling that hard to find FAFSA (the only legitimate website for Pell Grant applications), then I hope my blog will help them find it!
Spammers among the blog commenters
July 31, 2008 by Christine
My blog comment spam filter caught this gem sometime last month:
A little hard to read up there: “It is tiring attempting the compute the hours we’ve used up searching for pell grant web pages.”
Now, I don’t have a lot of patience for spam and self-promotion in my blog comment area. It’s a rampant marketing tactic, but I find it disrespectful and, well, sleazy. I delete a lot of spammy comments around here.
For the online casino folks here, I suppose it’s nice that they at least tried to make their spam look like an actual blog comment written by a human being. They used relevant keywords, anyway.
Right now, I’ll make lemonade out of, err… this spam: if they’re struggling that hard to find FAFSA (the only legitimate website for Pell Grant applications), then I hope my blog will help them find it!
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