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Recently discovered two new tricks of spammers. As befits a real parasite, they mutate little by little, adapt.
One of the tasks of spammers is to reduce the likelihood of deleting their comment. For this they are constantly inventing new ways. I already wrote about some of them (for example, the “criticism” of a blogger with his drawing into a “discussion”). But they require human involvement. How to disguise automatic spam, besides using standard “suitable to everything” phrases?
You can quote the post. Usually spammers do not do that. Previously, did not do. Now do. It is not difficult to automatically pull a random paragraph of a post, wrap it in quotation tags, and assign a “comment” from below. For example, like this:
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Or here's an option, more "advanced":
And, of course, along with all this - a link to the next govnosayt.
Do not leave comments on your blog that are of no value for further discussion. Even if they were left by a man, not a robot. Any “+1” or “thank you, very interesting” you can take note and delete. The man wanted to say thank you - said you saw it.
The continued existence of such comments only litters the blog. And usually, readers express gratitude by mail, and 99% of such “thank you” in the comments turns out to be trivial spam, exploiting the blogger's vanity or credulity.
This trick is used by spammers not only in Wordpress blogs, but also in Livejournal. Spammers leave a link that looks like a normal, but, of course, with a larva.
In this case, the spammer found a post in which Evgeny Chichvarkin was mentioned, and left a “valuable comment on the topic” with reference to Evgeny's blog:
At first glance, everything is decent.
By the way, if we click on this link, then we really get into Chichvarkin's LiveJournal. But not everything is so simple. Watch your hands. We hover the mouse over this link, and in the status line we see ... a small button.
But what we see in the status line is I won’t tell you :-) And I won’t even give you the link, it is prohibited by the Habr rules. Forbidden by the rules of "Habra" to the authors of the texts to give links to their material, and that's it (probably, to more easily generate unique content, like, stimulate) ;-) So, either look for yourself or ask in the newsroom.
Trick one - quoting post
One of the tasks of spammers is to reduce the likelihood of deleting their comment. For this they are constantly inventing new ways. I already wrote about some of them (for example, the “criticism” of a blogger with his drawing into a “discussion”). But they require human involvement. How to disguise automatic spam, besides using standard “suitable to everything” phrases?
You can quote the post. Usually spammers do not do that. Previously, did not do. Now do. It is not difficult to automatically pull a random paragraph of a post, wrap it in quotation tags, and assign a “comment” from below. For example, like this:
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It is not difficult to automatically pull a random paragraph of a post, wrap it in quotation tags, and assign a “comment” from below.
I fully support!
Or here's an option, more "advanced":
It is not difficult to automatically pull a random paragraph of a post, wrap it in quotation tags, and assign a “comment” from below.
Author, not tired of you writing all about the same?
And, of course, along with all this - a link to the next govnosayt.
What to do?
Do not leave comments on your blog that are of no value for further discussion. Even if they were left by a man, not a robot. Any “+1” or “thank you, very interesting” you can take note and delete. The man wanted to say thank you - said you saw it.
The continued existence of such comments only litters the blog. And usually, readers express gratitude by mail, and 99% of such “thank you” in the comments turns out to be trivial spam, exploiting the blogger's vanity or credulity.
Trick two - disguise as a normal link
This trick is used by spammers not only in Wordpress blogs, but also in Livejournal. Spammers leave a link that looks like a normal, but, of course, with a larva.
In this case, the spammer found a post in which Evgeny Chichvarkin was mentioned, and left a “valuable comment on the topic” with reference to Evgeny's blog:
At first glance, everything is decent.
By the way, if we click on this link, then we really get into Chichvarkin's LiveJournal. But not everything is so simple. Watch your hands. We hover the mouse over this link, and in the status line we see ... a small button.
But what we see in the status line is I won’t tell you :-) And I won’t even give you the link, it is prohibited by the Habr rules. Forbidden by the rules of "Habra" to the authors of the texts to give links to their material, and that's it (probably, to more easily generate unique content, like, stimulate) ;-) So, either look for yourself or ask in the newsroom.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/46973/
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