Comment Spam

  • leighm · Member ·

    One or two a day looking for moderation…

    They have these cutsey state-based urls like: gcalifornia.com or dvirginia.com, which all lead to an under construction blog page (I’ve looked at the html, nothing there). I went to domaintools.com and ran an IP check on 147.202.52.178. It isn’t on their blacklist.

    Is there any way to kill this IP, or Team Technologies, 1205 Technology Pkwy
    City: Cedar Falls
    StateProv: IA
    PostalCode: 50613
    Country: US

    ?

    I don’t have access to .htaccess, so how would I proceed?
    (I’ve already sent a nastygram to abuse@team… It didn’t bounce, no reply, and the spam’s still… edible.

    [Links removed – drmike]

  • drmike · Member ·

    Staff has stated that they will not block IPs as this would mean possible users being blocked and it’s real easy to get around IP blocks. Heck, two feet into a new chair for me. :)

    I do hope you are marking them as spam.

    I’m going to go ahead and change the URLs in your posts so not to give them any link credit by the way.

  • leighm · Member ·

    I figured it for some sort of ploy to get a few more pennies from adsense or something like that, but I didn’t realize that posting their link just furthered the scam… Dang your good!

    Yes… I do mark them as spam, but after using SpamKarma on my Y! hosted blog, it’s sort of anticlimatic… I marked one moderated message that slipped by as spam, and the next day I had a nice note from DeutcheTelecom in my inbox.

  • nexusnovel · Member ·

    I am having problems with Akismet since it is taking any comments on my blog as spam. Another user, Enkerli at http://enkerli.wordpress.com/ is having the same problem.

    How do we correct this? Or is there a way to switch Akismet off?

  • timethief · Member ·

    switch akismet off! *shudder* you must be kidding
    send in a feedback

  • drmike · Member ·

    Insert “I’m not a staff member” warning…

    Change your ISP. A check of your IP address shows you’re in a well known nest of spammers as well.

    Folks, without pointing fingers towards any user here, Sympatico / Nexxia are long time, well known spammers who bin all complaints. I have large chunk of their IP blocks in my firewall and I will probably not ever remove them.

    You may also want to try Matt’s advice.

    If the house is burning down, don’t you get out?

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