Comments on: Spammers are getting more sophisticated in generating fake sites– here’s one

By: bartjan @ bajaca

bartjan @ bajaca — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:26:43 +0000

Most spammers aren't dumb. Most often they are about return on investment.

In the past having your spam look spammy worked. Now it doesn't work anymore so spammers have to make their spam look less spammy.

So now there are tools to scrape comments of other people and reuse them, there are tools to populate forums immediately (with only fake people) and there are tools to make the autogenerated blogs look perfectly legit. and lots more.

I'm not saying I approve, just that it only keeps getting harder to notice the difference. In a few years we probably can't even tell the difference anymore…

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Affbuzz.com - Affiliate Marketing News and Blog Aggregator — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:12:11 +0000

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By: Dan Lew

Dan Lew — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:29:31 +0000

]Yeah I get the same alot are coming from .ru domains

By: Graeme @ findaposter

Graeme @ findaposter — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:52:36 +0000

Some times you just have to stop and read all the URL's of the comments, I've been caught out before. Its when the same lame comment keeps coming up every so often that you spot them.

By: David D Ochoa

David D Ochoa — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:14:25 +0000

Everyone, this was a guest post. When the author typed out the domain, he didn't hyper-link it. However, when Jonathan imported it, the CMS took it upon itself to make it a live link.

By: Gerri

Gerri — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:15:43 +0000

You have got to be kidding me? Spammers can go to that extent? I would have probably just looked at it as a legitimate site. It just goes to show that you have to be careful. As Bryn mentioned, aren't you doing them a favour with the backlink?

By: Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:51:19 +0000

Hey Bryn– whoops, I didn't intend to give a backlink to that spam site. Good catch! Jonathan, could you fix?

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:50:35 +0000

While they may be sophisticated now, they were downright blatant and transparent a few years ago (obviously spam).

Part of it may be improving technology, but i think most of it is these spammers getting a tiny bit smarter.

regards

Simon

By: NPI Search

NPI Search — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:27 +0000

Funny stuff, Dave!

You see Johnny's "MTV Cribs – Honeymoon Edition" yet?

By: jackmo

jackmo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:13:21 +0000

haha that was pro, you should do a review on spammy sites that you think are good