Going through comments today, I came across one of the funniest spam comments I’ve ever seen,
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments, I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .
In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it, its just done for higher rankings in search engines.
Contact me icq 454528835 or write me tedirectory(at)yahoo.com, i will give you my site url and you will give me yours if you are interested. thank you
Wow! Nothing like a spammer’s friend offering me less spam in order to put a link on our home page. Here’s my official response to this person:
Hi DICK. These friends you speak of, are they nuts? Something tells me that you would give us the shaft either way. The whole thing seems a bit hairy, if you ask me. This reciprocation you’re offering, will it be in the front end or the back end? Just so you know, our back end has a NOFOLLOW, NOINDEX tag on it. The more I think about it, it smells too fishy, and I’ll have to turn down the offer.
I guess I’ll have to just continue deleting his friends comments. Ho-Hum.
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That is too funny! gotta give it to him for thinking outside the can… spam can that is!
Great response, Ron. What a dork Dick is, huh?
Hey, Mr. Head, are you telling me that you personally know 30-50% of all the spammers out there? Do me a favor, will ya? Tell the dude from Nigeria who keeps asking for my banking information to just send me a check…the LinkWorth Corporate office address will work just fine. I’m totally good for it…I’ll send him his cut. And send my condolences to him about his dad.
And if you’re in tight with the pharmacy guys…have them give me a call. I don’t really need Viagra yet, but I might be interested in some of their other stuff.
I don’t really play the stock market any longer, either, so if you’ll tell those kids to keep their lame schemes to themselves that’d be great, too.
Thanks!!
Wow. The spam made me LOL. “Give us something, and we’ll tell our imaginary friends to stop being evil.” It’d be so much nicer if he’d just drop his “friends” into a bottomless pit.
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LOL I read the article about ” the funniest comment ever”
They mentioned about that spam comment.
It would also be nice if he/she sent me a picture. I remember back in 2004 an “SEO Expert” was killing our forum with spam, which included a link to his site, which had a picture of himself up. We had a little fun with him too:
http://talk.linkworth.com/showthread.php?t=78
That is certainly an original approach to the spam so you have to give a little credit just for the humor aspect of that request.
I love your response though!
Man, its funny because you are speaking of these imaginary friends, yet, EVERYONE knows what you’re talking about. Does that prove that these type of emails are everywhere, or does it prove that someone knows how to market really well?
Very funny. Nice try though.
I wonder if Dick realizes that you now have his IP address and a written confession that he’s aiding and abetting known spammers which — in addition to his email being rather extortionist — violates all sorts of laws… RICO being the least of them.
OH SNAP! Get ‘em, Kate, GET ‘EM!
Watch out, Dick…we know smart lawyers who know laws and stuff!!
But he’s simply looking to raise his page rank (wink, wink).
Yes, how lame is that?
I’ve got something to say to this Richard as well, so here goes.
No deal, Rick, dude! I’m not spamming my own site with your link, and I don’t want anyone telling me what to put on my sites for any reason or in exchange for anything. And if you know a lot of spammers and personally can contact them, then why the heck aren’t you really doing something to help isps rid the internet of them? Doesn’t say much for your own character, does it, hmmmm?
You’re a spammer yourself, and if anything, in competition with the others.
Besides, if I refuse to put your lousy link up on my site, you could always do the opposite of what you promise and actually spam on your own or get other spammers to spam, which I have full confidence you would be petty enough to do.
So forget it, I’m not buying that load of rotten potatoes from you.
I’ll just laugh at your pathetic attempt at boosting your ego by trying to get the highest rankings in search engines. You have no life. I suggest you get one, quick!
I’d trade a link for NO more spam, but not just a reduction. But seriously, between Wordpress Akismit and requiring Blogger registrations, the spam problem on my 30+ blogs is almost nothing.
On a related subject, what do people think about the service Buyblogcomments.com is offering? Is LinkWorth planning on offering that at some point?
Chris…yeah as long as people moderate the comments, spam on blog comments never make it through. I think our Akismit plugin has caught 35-40K spam comments.
Your other question about that blog comment spammer… why would we want to piss anyone off? Maybe I missed something, but it seems they just push blog spam and LinkWorth would never force anything on other sites.
i believe dick is in the mid section of town. Right down that street called the happy trail.
Great use of words. Do I suspect double meanings ?
I just don’t understand why they keep trying?
Alot of blogs these days are using plugins like Askimet, which blocks EVERY spam entry (in my case at least)
These days i don’t even bother sifting through the list, i just click “Delete All”
That’s HOURS of work for the spammers, and 2 seconds of work for me to undo it all.
He sure is trying hard to get a link from your site to his. You know that you can make your job a lot easier if you used Akismet at http://akismet.com/download/. It is a WordPress plugin that automatically catches spam comments so that they do not get published. Then you can go in your back office and check what the comments you received were and “de-spam” the ones that look legit. That is just a suggestion anyway.
This smacks of blackmail to get site owners to cave in to their demands.
Linkworth is not so naive to do that; imagine if you have agreed to their first “request”, will we have to send some money over next?
Spam is considered not the worst of these vengeful low-lifes, we can easily undo their efforts. Some go for hacking to take down a site.
Reporting their IPs would be useful but then again these spammers could be using open Ips to conceal their track.
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