Any blogger who uses the Akismet spam plug-in, which auto-magically dumps spammer comments out of your regular comment stream, knows that one of the fun things you can do upon return from an extended absence is to take a look at what got relegated to the pre-trash bin.
We looked at some of the more poetic spam moments a year ago in this post, but upon latest bulk perusal, I noticed a shift. Spammers appear to be taking it up a notch. Our friend Barbara Swafford – Blogging Without A Blog, a great resource for new bloggers as well as those who’ve been at it a while, noticed this recently, too.
Sharing with you some of the more insightful and interesting comments on their way down the permanent memory hole, along with my bracketed response:
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I had got a desire to make my own firm, but I did not have got enough of cash to do it. Thank heaven my close dude proposed to use the loans. Therefore I used the financial loan and realized my desire.
[This is a new appropriation of "the" with respect to the phenomenon of adding it to infer some increased emphasis and somewhat scary importance. "The" Internets, "The" Menopause, "The" (dreaded, sinking feeling that I may not qualify after all) Loans, "The" Student Loan, and ::insert really scary music:: "The" *financial* loan, the scariest loan of all. And what about "close dude" as a career move?]
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Hello,http://www.——.info – May i sex dating with you?
[This is really just direct marketing, using a variation of the old f2f joke where a guy would start at one end of the bar and ask the same question of each woman, invariably get his face slapped, and continue. When asked why he continued the process with such dismal results, he was confident that eventually someone would take him up on the offer.]
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I’ve got to hand it to you
[Hand what to me? Again, I'm kinda scared.]
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at 11:03 am on one post:
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at 11:13 am on another:
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[Time flies and all.]
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After studying the enthusiasm of Mallory, whose pre-eminent words in capacity to a lady of the press asking why he wanted to climb Everest
vibram five fingers flow.
[Exalting prose, evocative of "from whom all blessings" and whatnot.]
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You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
[Odd? What's odd about that?]
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from a site devoted to colon cleansing:
I bet you wish george bush was still president now
[well, yes, as a matter of fact I do, for reasons that might bear some affinity]
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a comment from our post recommending John Hoff’s WordPress Defender
This really is my nevertheless my very first love, and I have not met a girl like her since (or had any relationships at all), even when I’ve not been so fond of her. We’re both strong characters, and we both just click together completely. I know I might not be the best judge right now, but I do nevertheless believe she may be the 1 for me. She hasn’t experienced any boyfriends since me, and I believe that’s significant, as we’ve in no way fallen out or gotten upset with each other.
[Romantic and chivalrous, sigh-worthy.]
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Merited to the economic lay of the land encompassing the cosmos sundry people have master condensed times. They are either living paycheck to paycheck or are currently behind on bills and scarcity a fast course to assail c promote cash. There are monotonous people that secure been recently laid mistaken from their jobs without a system “B” to fall ago on. According to CNNMoney.com “The percentage of those claiming that jobs are currently petrified to become infected with reached stylish principal of 49.6%, while the bevy of consumers claiming that jobs are “productive” thwack a revitalized low at 3.4%.” And according to the expectation guide of whether the circumstances compel get excel declined from 73.7 to 65.7 matrix month. And those in the club the job demand to climb up better went from 18% to 16.3%. The economists suggest that Christmas spending will be down and that consumers wishes not regain spending confidence until time spring of next year.
What does that surely to us? It means that things disposition simply be bruited about worst and multitudinous people are comparing this to the extensive dejection when people were borrowing folding money from the banks to invest in the inventory market. When the variety deal in crashed they were not qualified to pay back the banks the bread, which had a spill down effect. Today since so diverse mortgages are prevailing vile the banks accept tightened their lending which is slowing down the economy. How has the frugality attacked you? Be sound!
[This is post-worthy economic advice. Perhaps we will discuss this further. Seriously.]
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and finally, just this morning:
Not spending superfluous words.
[Well, alrighty then!]
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Spammers appear to be getting more creative, more polite, and a little better at possibly disguising their evil intent. Or is this latest permutation really less evil? Are they still just trying to make a buck or hack into our computers or infect us with a virus? Or is the prospect of clicking any spam fraught with infinite danger?
Is spam still scary?
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Peter and Betsy Wuebker are location-independent professionals who share what they know about travel, simplicity and integrating work with life. 
Yes, they are scary…mostly because they have time to do this. I wish I could “reply” and tell them to all get a job and that they aren’t as important as they think they are. Narcissists perhaps?
LOL Mary! More like cheap copywriting for bot programs, methinks! So they technically have a job already, they’re just providing crappy output for crappier wages.
New and improved spam…. is still annoying, a nuisance and is still spam.
Mike has an awesome blog post here: Home – and it’s hot! hot! hot!
Hi Mike – You’re right. I’m always amazed that so many spam comments show up on older posts, too.
Hi Betsy .. not worth the type they badly type .. I’ve not put one or two through, I certainly don’t click if I’m not sure .. and emails just get whammied out .. they don’t bother me – because I won’t let them .. but they are a pain!
Thanks – that’s my time limit for wasters of my life .. there are enough real ones unfortunately ..
Oh actually I’d send them over to Davina’s and let them know what’s coming … ?!
Byeee – Hilary
Hilary has an awesome blog post here: Under Sea Sussex – Tompot Blenny- Piddock- Devonshire Cup Corals and Jewel Anemones
LOL Hilary, I’m sure between you and Davina they’d get what for! Thanks.
Still laughing!! I’m loving this. It makes me feel good to know that elance buyers who hire third world “writers” for 50-cents for a 500-word “article” are getting this sort of creative writing for their efforts. How fun!!
Becky Blanton has an awesome blog post here: I’m in Cowgirl Heaven!!
LOL Becky: “Hey, let’s pay for copy that’s only gonna get us dumped in the Spam folder.” Great business decision, eh?
LMAO, Betsy! Hahahaha…
“I’ve got to hand it to you” — [Hand what to me? Again, I'm kinda scared.]
NICE pic of the mountains! Ooh la, la. I could imagine having a mural like that painted on my living room wall.
Hi Davina – It’s amazing what the Apture plug-in will pull in for you when you search for exalted mountain. It really is grand, isn’t it?
Hi Betsy,
You’ve posted a few I haven’t seen, like “May i sex dating with you?” and “You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.” Wow! How do they come up with these and do they REALLY think we’re going to approve them?
What gets me is how persistent they are. I look at the IP addresses and there will be dozens from the same person for days on end. It’s like “give it up already”.
I love your responses to the comments. Think they’ll come by and read them? Heh Heh!
P.S. Thank you for the link love. I truly appreciate it.
Barbara Swafford has an awesome blog post here: Use It or Lose It
Hi Barbara – It’s sad that I actually read them, but I want to try and retrieve legitimate comments before they all go bye-bye in one click. I know it’s a numbers game with them, but all right already! Thanks.
“How has the frugality attacked you? Be sound! ” This one just cracked me up – I had to go away and take the laundry off the line just thinking about it…
I don’t understand spamming – unless their purpose is to make money? and then I do not see the purpose of that?
In my earliest days, I wrote a post about decision making and money practices used by financial planners which referenced a training manual for AB…TING FUNDS – a practice of using investor’s money to pay off fines. I got 1,000s of nasty spam messages a day, until I took the post off my site….including death threats….
I still do not understand what is achieved by spam?
except funny posts and facebook sharing s! and they are funny
Thanks
Patricia has an awesome blog post here: SMILING ON A BEAUTIFUL MORNING
Hi Patricia – Yes, that one was hilarious! And it’s interesting which posts attract the most spams, isn’t it? Posts we wrote over a year ago. As if. Thanks.
My favorite spam comments are from someone who keeps begging me to tell him how to become a pilot.
With some of them, it just sounds like someone who’s not a native speaker of English was hired to type comments and gets paid by the word. Not dissing non-native speakers (I am one myself!)
Loved your write up on it – nice blog, added to my RSS reader now
Anne has an awesome blog post here: And… I’m back!
Hi Anne – Welcome to PassingThru and thank you for subscribing! You’re right about the non-native speaker thing. Sadly(?), I even look at URLs trying to determine whether a spam comment is legit, and they can be from quite exotic places. Just another facet of the global economy!