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The New Face of Spam?

December 29, 2006

Previously, I was talking about how to completely block spam in your WordPress blog. Although, I am using 3 anti-spam plugins - Bad Behavior, Akismet and Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam, I am still receiving few spam comments. So I arrived at a conclusion that no single plugin (or if there is, I have yet to find out) can prevent your blog from spam comments. Bad Behavior was effective enough because it has prevented automated spam bots from accessing this web site, although some can still make it.

Before, I only receive spam comments such as “Nice day, best. I have the same topic in my site. Check it out (then a link to a Viagra site is provided).” or “Thanks for this great information!” then provides a link to site which intends to sell products or worse, to porn sites. These comment spams are usually three-liners. But recently, I received a comment spam disguised by its lengthy content.

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