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I still don't need ringtones

Here's a curious update for yesterday's post. I received four spam comments within the last 24 hours. In the past, the spam comments I received were for all kinds of products. Ringtones, insurance, online casinos, medication, real estate and so on. All four spam comments I received yesterday were for ringtones though. Now I wonder if the spam scripts actually parse the website before posting and use keywords from the website to determine what link to spam to maximize the odds that people visit the website actually follow the links. Kinda like contextual web advertising like AdSense does to improve revenue.

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Luiz Carlos Jr. on :

Why you dont try this, show 5 random number to the user (using text, not images) and use a field to get the 5 numbers typed by an user.
I know, this is easy, but, as your server dont have php support but it can be an attempt to stop the spammer :-)
Sorry for my poor english.

sp on :

Hi,

that's basically the plan if spam gets once again too bad. At first I want to try a static number like 123 though. Since I assume that my site isn't specifically targeted this should be enough. If it's not enough I'll go random but I assume that those scripts can parse websites and extract relevant textual information.

leetnet on :

Two posts in a row about blog spam? Get back to work ;-)

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