Caught in the Spam Trap

I sometimes just have to laugh at some of the weird sh!t that gets caught in the spam trap here. We have been using a no-longer-supported plug-in called Spam Karma. Regardless of the non-support, it still does a real good job of eliminating an estimated 99.9 percent of spam comments.

The plug-in can be set to email some of the lower-score items to the webmaster. As I said in the first paragraph, some of them can be pretty funny, especially if the spammer is using his whatever-to-English translation software. This one came into the other blog this morning:

I discovered your blog webpage on google and check some of your early posts. Continue to maintain up the extremely beneficial operate. I just additional up your RSS feed to my MSN News Reader. Searching for forward to reading alot more from you later on!

(redacted vendor they were pushing)

Spam Karma 2 Report:
-0.43 – Link Counter: Comment contains: 1 linked URLs and 0 unlinked URLs: total link coef: 1 >= threshold (1). Non-URL text size: 289 chars.
-4.00 – Stopwatch: Flash Gordon was here (comment posted 11 seconds after page load).
-20.00 – Javascript Payload: Fake Javascript Payload.
-2.61 – Post Age and Activity: Entry posted 1 week, 6 days ago. 0 comments in the past 5 days. Current Karma: -24.
-1.00 – core: Severity settings adjustment.
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-28.04 – Overall Karma
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LOL – Searching for forward to reading alot more from you later on! 😆