Dangerous spam?

  • All of a sudden I got 14 comments in one day for my blog (which used to get about 1 a week). They are all very positive comments, but several are a little incomprehensible. I don’t want to approve until I know if there is a danger. They all have unique email addresses but have website names that are stings of letters. Please advise!

    A few examples follow:
    Some truly good content on this website , thankyou for contribution.

    Appreciate it for helping out, excellent information.

    Regards for all your efforts that you have put in this. Very interesting info. “Never knock on Death’s door ring the bell and run away Death really hates that” by Matt Frewer.

    Its such as you learn my mind! You appear to know a lot approximately this, like you wrote the e book in it or something. I believe that you just can do with some p.c. to power the message home a bit, but other than that, that is magnificent blog. A great read. I’ll definitely be back.

    Thanks for your help!

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    If it smells like spam it probably is. The more generic and non-specific to the post, the more likely it is spam. The ones you quoted are typical. If you were to approve the more innocent looking spam comments, the ‘more traditional’ types of spam will most likely follow – especially if you have set for comments to be automatically approved for visitors who have previously had a comment approved.

    There’s a lot of similar spam. I usually google the sentence when I think it’s spam. When the exact text is also on other places, that’s obvious enough.

    Thread Starter alphabetsouptypographic

    (@alphabetsouptypographic)

    @cubecolor: Thanks for the help. Under settings, discussion both “An administrator must always approve the comment” and “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” are checked. Is there some other setting that I should check?

    @roy: Great suggestion! FYI, they are all spam ??

    An administrator must always approve the comment

    When you check that, you’ll have to approve a comment before it appears on your website. When you have good-working anti spam plugins, they’re usually caught before they appear.

    Just start by activating the Akismet plugin and you should be fine for a while.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Also try Cookies for Comments.

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