Tuesday, February 02, 2010

"helped me alot in my college assignement"

In a recent post about the Star's apparent inconsistency between print and online as to standards for what constitutes graphic content, I received the following comment:

Anonymous said...

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"Interesting," I thought, "that must be why every college program I've ever looked at has a mandatory English communications course." I then proceeded to continue going about my life normally.

Then, a bit later, on a post containing nothing but an inconsequential analogy, I received the following comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice dispatch and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you as your information.


"That's odd," I thought, "there's no possible way that post helped anyone with a college assignment." Then I realized that that comment sounded kind of familiar. So I went a-googling, and found 155,000 hits for "helped me alot in my college assignement."

Based on the first few I clicked on, all of them are anonymous comments, none of them link to anything. What kind of spam is this?

12 comments:

laura k said...

Is there a link to something?

Anonymous said...

Why can't you ask them?

Anonymous said...

Why can't you ask them?

impudent strumpet said...

No links or anything. Just random, anonymous, and imperfectly spelled comments that are repeated in many other blogs across the internet.

And this post is asking them. Since they're anonymous and without links, I can't ask them without contact information.

Jerry Neumann said...

I get the same comments on my blog... the only thing I can think of is that they are testing to see if comments are moderated before sending spam. Pretty weak explanation, I know, but I can't think of anything else.

Jerry Neumann said...

Alternatively, blogger is stripping out the spam-link. I see the comments on Wordpress blog with a link to wpthemes in the commenter's name.

Matt said...

Yeah I just got A comment of the exact same variety. Mine came with the wpthemes site as well as an e-mail address from gawab.com... strangeness

Anonymous said...

I got the same comment as the first one in your article. It contained a backlink to http://genericwpthemes.com and listed ala234l@gawab.com as the poster's e-mail.

I think they just do it for the backlink. I turfed the comment.

Chief Ox said...

On my website oxenmine.com - I received a very similar comment like 3 times - no links no info nothing ...

But the college assignment part made sense :)

It was from ala234l@gawab.com

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BuTTerCup said...

Hey even I got one today. Exactly the same.
"helped me alot in my college assignment"
And I laughed hard, coz the post was about "childhood days" ...

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