[spam-stopper] Has anyone seen this yet?

[Roy Schestowitz]

_____/ On Fri 30 Dec 2005 00:57:10 GMT, [Craig] wrote : \_____

> Today I received an email that was obviously spam, however, there was
> an interesting twist to it that has me concerned.
>
> In the body of the message was my domain name, simply "Nuclearmoose"
> but with no .com or similar. I'm concerned that Akismet and indeed,
> any other spam-stopper might add that term to a blacklist or similar.
>
> Is this a new tactic, or have any of you seen this already? Should I
> be concerned about this?
>
> BTW, I flagged the email as spam so Akismet would deal with it,
> however, I did EDIT the post beforehand to delete "Nuclearmoose" from
> the text body.
>
> Craig.
> Nuclear Moose.

These  are  attempts to make the comment assimilate to the content or  the
theme  of the site. These are less likely to be removed. At worse  scenar-
ios,  they  confuse the Webmaster that will leave it in tact, thereby  en-
couraging more.

Use of the page title is common, but someone whom I know runs a Perl-based
comment  form  and is aware of the same spamming trend. Some spammers  are
scarping  random bits from the site, then stitching them together. If  you
don't  erase  these comments, you will get more, but filtering becomes  an
issue.  Other spammers use cryptic link with poor anchor text. Even if you
follow before deleting, they win. Similar to referrer spam...

Roy