Spammers Writing Essays! & Zune’s USPS Visit!
Posted on July 10, 2007 | By Enkay | Leave a Comment | 432 Views
This is quite interesting, it seems that since last week my spammers are writing pages to an incomplete book. I don’t know how many of you receive SPAM on a daily basis but I see about 1-2 spam comments daily and they started off as one sentence comments but lately they have gotten quite long. Some are in the 2000 word range - thats about 5 pages double spaced! Some of them are even essays warning against smoking tobacco, others such as the one you see in this post is about something beyond my understanding. The best part is, some of the Spam I receive is quite interesting, here is an example of a few:
“Matthew Mcconaughey is SEXY”
“Britney Spears launches new underweer line”
“Conan O’Brain’s hair sprey”
What I like is that some of them are quite funny and the best of all is the spelling is bad enough to give away that a comment is spam. Anyway, just wanted to see if some of you receive mammoth spam comments.
Ms. Danielle’s USPS Visit With the Zune
Poor Ms. Danielle was turned back at the US Postal Service Office today when she was denied Priority tape even though she was using Priority Shipping - Weird eh? Well, I told her in a comment thats I have seen some employees being a little protective of USPS supplies. For example, the one time I was shipping an item in a box marked with “eBay” and the representative at the desk questioned whether the box was paid for and was looking at the box as if it was one of the “USPS eBay” boxes. Weird thing is, he still accepted the package but it would have been stupid to be asked to pay for my own box! It reminds me of Newman from “Seinfeld” who was hilarious as he too was very protective of the USPS and his crew of mailmen.
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wow i don’t think i’ve seen any spam posts like that yet. they sort of crack me up though. my favorite sneaky ones are the ones that say “hello great site! afdknkdsvbvmxc” lol
me no likey the post officer in downtown LA. “no ship for you! one year!”
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it’s weird right after I saw your post.. I checked my new comments then I saw all this new spam. Ok cool.. Ill enter you new contest soon.. what brand is it? seriously if I were you. I would let go of the Zune. For marketing purposes, since it has a lot of history giving it away is much more valuable.
@ danielle - LOL! I never really use the post office that much actually, only if I have to ship books and such.
@ Cash For Comments - I should let the Zune go for marketing purposes but I have a better plan on mind
, Hope to see you enter the contest though. The player is actually all Samsung and is manufactured by TSINGHUA TONGFANG who apparently make a lot of popular players. They have a website here:
http://www.szthtf.com/docc/products/more/products.asp?product_class_id=196&product_id=306
See the list of their players to the side!
@ CFC + NK — I didn’t have these crazy long spam comments either (that i recall), and i also checked today and there was this SUPER long one. prob like 600+ words! what the heck is going on!? i saw another one that was prob 250+ words, with one link in the middle of it for web hosting. those bastards! enough already! we’re not going to press “approve”! lol jon lee (http://jonlee.ca) wrote a great post about how to minimize the comment lines in ur akismet. check it out!
Yeah! They are just showing up from somewhere and I don’t really know where they come from. They are getting to be really really long. I saw Jon Lee’s post myself and I might have to give it a try.
The best is, today I got Zune related spam! and it says “I am spam bot, I have no comment to make” and its actually from a really reputable zune website called zunescene.com .