And in other news…
I’ve been getting some really stupid spam lately — not the usual “grow your penis!” and “I am the widow of Major General Nesesesese Seko Ubambi and I have a million dollars I need to deposit into your account” and “(Cyrillic gibble garble)” offerings but things like “I really like your site! Good article! I am a two-toed sloth — can you write an entry entirely composed of mashed cassava mixed with drool?” Here is the latest thing I got. For some reason it struck me as especially hilariously braindead:
I really like what you wrote here – it’s very good. Thanks for posting this. I’ve been trying out with WordPress lately. Do you use WordPress? Any tips for me? Click here if you’d like to check out my site. Have a fun week!
There was a link to some website but for some reason I’ve neglected to include it in my quote. How careless of me. Anyway, enter your reader tips in the comments for this hapless person and/or cyborg, who or which apparently is unable to read the footer at the bottom of my blog where it says “Powered by Wordpress.” Hm — I guess that’s my first “tip” for my mysterious correspondent: if you want to know what software powers a blog, it often says so right on that same blog, right there on the front page! Crazy, I know.
By Paco on Feb 6th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
I’ve been getting spammed by someone trying to interest me in “home study of the Quran.” Same deal: “Keep up the good work”, then a link (sometimes multiple links) to the site. Very annoying.
By Andrea Harris on Feb 7th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Oh yeah I get that stuff all the time. And I get it via Twitter too — I’ll get a message that someone is “following” me in Twitter, and I’ll check out their site and it’s invariably all about porn or selling some get-rich-quick scheme. Just today I reported a Twitter site for spam: it was rather inventive, set up as a site by a “woman doctor” with a profile icon of a Muslim woman in a hijab. But there was a link to a website in the profile with an innocuous name, and when I went to it it was nothing but a spam site for selling products and Taiwanese dating sites. I reported it for spam and blocked it.