Comment spam

Comment spam

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/198028#comment1580470

Looks like someone is trying to get a high pagerank on car insurance

It's from a registered user, but I think Word Verification is supposed to block spambots, which means someone has personally taken your blog and spilt his story.

Originally posted by velmu:

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/198028#comment1580470

Looks like someone is trying to get a high pagerank on car insurance

Thanks for report, removed

Originally posted by Tamil:

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/show.dml/55329#comment1590192

Thank god these are still quite rare... But I can see why they're doing it. *.opera.com has excellent ranking on Google since there are lots of links pointing here.

*thinks about getting time to finish that SpamAssassin interface*

I already have SpamAssassin scanning all comments coming in, but the Bayesian filters need to learn what is and what isn't spam. Currently it lets everything through. I don't even know how it will work for comments considering it is originally made for email. But it'll be cool to try it out nevertheless

This could get annoying...I don't know how they pick these things up. I hope it's random

http://my.opera.com/sykora/blog/show.dml/185020#comment1598989

I've been hit tonight, for the first time ever since I started blogging here in December 2005, and have banned these users:

sultryslavic
minoscoverall
apologygalileo
sweatshirtballot
nichromesmithereens


I have also restricted comments to Friends only. (Which are usually the only peeps who normally comment.)

At least until this latest plague dies down.

Originally posted by olekasper:

*thinks about getting time to finish that SpamAssassin interface*

Definitely.... Looks like the captcha has been broken or someone is doing this manually ( ). I had 2 anonymous comments promoting some semi random bullsh*t last night.

Originally posted by jonimueller:

I have also restricted comments to Friends only. (Which are usually the only peeps who normally comment.)

At least until this latest plague dies down.

Yea, I think I'll just delete them as they come in. At least until we get SpamAssassin Interface
(Mental-note: put on wish-list Gruesome mortal-kombat .gif of spam mercilessly destroyed

really annoying; here are some spammer's pages:

http://my.opera.com/sheratonolav/about/
http://my.opera.com/shilohhandicraftsman/about/
http://my.opera.com/birminghamschlesinger/about/
http://my.opera.com/bookcaseinsecticide/about/

They've just been created. Perhaps an admin should shut them down?

I concur
*presses the red button. The Red Button*
Muahahahaha!!

Originally posted by dalu:

really annoying; here are some spammer's pages:

Thanks. Murdered.

http://my.opera.com/My2cents/blog/show.dml/68990#comment1600158
30+ comments

Originally posted by Tamil:

How come one can add blog post comment with private access?

I'm guessing by using a scripted poster robot, simply increasing the blog entry id. We'll have to look more into this.

Yes, it was odd, I only got spammed on posts where there were already comments. Luckily, it looks like some brilliant Opera Admin just queried all the guys comments and killed them. Very nice.

Yum

What happened to the Word Verification? I thought that was working fairly well?

Originally posted by sykora:

What happened to the Word Verification? I thought that was working fairly well?

It is totally inaccessible, epecially for people with poor eyesight.

I see. That's considerate.

Another spam comment: http://my.opera.com/jor/blog/show.dml/15000
Can a moderator delete it?

More spammer accounts:

crowbarfilm
ehserif
nichromesmithereens
seismicareawide
sheratondebug

Shouldn't ye be sayin this to Mr Jordi? It is his blog after all.

Originally posted by YtseJam:

Another spam comment: http://my.opera.com/jor/blog/show.dml/15000
Can a moderator delete it?

done

Originally posted by Words:

More spammer accounts:

crowbarfilm
ehserif
nichromesmithereens
seismicareawide
sheratondebug

RIP

Originally posted by Stein:

done

I suggest you change your user title to Smooth Operator

Originally posted by Stein:

RIP

Nice one!

Another spammer: http://my.opera.com/foodlousy/about/

Hmm... You could at least tease the bastards and set the no follow atribute to all links on comments so they don't get any advantage from spamming on Google.

Or maybe you guys could look whether all of these are pointing to an IP (or a small range of IPs) and set a block? I've got a feeling there'll be more spam coming in the next few days - most of which, will probably not be reported

More and more spammer accounts

http://my.opera.com/vetoconvertible/about/
http://my.opera.com/accumulatesockeye/about/

Banned, banned, banned... Odd, I thought we did rel=nofollow in blog comments already. Stein?

Originally posted by haavard:

Banned, banned, banned... Odd, I thought we did rel=nofollow in blog comments already. Stein?

I'm not sure, but stupid spammers are maybe not aware of that anyway

Doesn't look like rel=nofollow is added after all... And it seems that CAPTCHA was disabled too, which might explain the sudden huge amount of spam.

I got one that disabling anonymous comments wouldn't catch
http://my.opera.com/klingoncowboy4/blog/show.dml/98247#comment1604449

so that means more spammer accounts
http://my.opera.com/hotwoodbury/about/

A few minutes ago I got a comment spam and I just deleted it (didn't watch who had put that in my weblog). A few seconds later I got another one from this user. I've ignored him/her for the time being but maybe Opera moderators can remove him/her so that he/she won't be able to spread spam from time to time...

thanks they are banned

Another:
http://my.opera.com/quiris/blog/show.dml/11805#comment1605885 http://my.opera.com/magnifyflatulent/about/
http://my.opera.com/quiris/blog/show.dml/5367#comment1605318 http://my.opera.com/vacationlandgust/about/
http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/show.dml/205215#comment1606025 http://my.opera.com/streptococcusbayonne/about/

they are gone

Another

http://my.opera.com/taleapocalyptic/about/

so the question is, "Is this jsut one guy?" or is Opera big enough to be spammed?

Two more to ban

http://my.opera.com/tehranalgeria/about/

http://my.opera.com/careyoncoming/about/

Hello Opera monkeys

so here are just my 0.02$

comicmid
futilerelieve
grammaticalbumin
mullenjaneiro
renditiontao
sepoymckay
spectrometricpatina
uscandgsdoubleheader
whigsomali

They all postet aproximately comment spam postings.

best greetings, Thomas

Howdy ... sorry if I'm repeating, but I've just got a load of them too (and I think everyone knows what the word 'them' should read).

http://my.opera.com/hackcamelback
http://my.opera.com/diagonalanoint
http://my.opera.com/lucrativeforswore
http://my.opera.com/lucrativeforswore

If it makes anyone feel better, I've sent a message to whoever these people (person?) are (is). They're aware of exactly the four letter word they are (it's like a 'BlogThings' quiz ... 'What four Letter word are You?')

I shouldn't respond to them (just place 'em on the ignore lists and report them here), but I was seriously annoyed because this is the first time it's happened. Also, the links attached with the spam LOOK (ie - haven't clicked on them, don't want to) like they're incredibly offensive (and illegal).

Pity we can't backtrack IPs and report to their ISPs.

Oh, well ... wishing hateful things upon them them will have to be enough ...

Thank you ...

David.

Oh ... one more thing (sorry for the double comment), but I thought this might be of some interest/use to admins?

I got some 'new' mentions in my news items and went to them. Yes, some were the spam mentioned above, but on others, nothing at all had been changed - no new comments, no nothing.

Not sure if it's spam (hacker?) related, somehow. Just thought I'd better mention it.

Thanks again ...

clean, that happened when Opera cleaned out at least one spammer that was listed. They had already been added to the 'watch list' but were deleted before you were able to view them. I would not worry.

Also! the spam appears to be much worse. They also appear to be monitoring the 'latest comments' page (or some sort of similar query) because immediately after posting a comment on an old post I received a spam hit. I simply deleted it.

Originally posted by olekasper:

Originally posted by sykora:
What happened to the Word Verification? I thought that was working fairly well?

It is totally inaccessible, epecially for people with poor eyesight.

What about allowing OC Members to set up anon comments with verification feature on. I'm very interested in comments, even from anon folks but never bots. Of course, if this is actual people posting the spam this wouldn't be much help but I tend to suspect it is spammers.

Pity they found us.

Yum
who hates making pages inaccessible, especially to those with disabilities but with no other spam solution, would prefer something

Originally posted by WillYum:

What about allowing OC Members to set up anon comments with verification feature on. I'm very interested in comments, even from anon folks but never bots. Of course, if this is actual people posting the spam this wouldn't be much help but I tend to suspect it is spammers.

Concur.

Originally posted by WillYum:

who hates making pages inaccessible, especially to those with disabilities but with no other spam solution, would prefer something

Concur again.

So it seems there is some sort of verification system that is up but I logged out and tried it. It asked the question:

Answer the following trivial question so we can confirm that you are not a machine:

Is Ice cream cold? Yes No

I choose, "No" -- I still posted anyway.

Yum