Spam is an unwanted message, whether be it electronic or hard copy. It can be in the form of mails, emails, messages, comments, video links, etc.

No matter the ways out there to prevent such unwanted and sometimes harmful messages, they do get smarter and more and more measures need to be tweaked and added to detect them.

Usually when I get a Pending or sometimes an Approved comment on my blog that happens to be spam, I don’t delete it, I mark it as Spam. This helps whatever system or people behind the system define how this spam managed to get around its detection method and hopefully provide more understanding so that detecting techniques can be improved.

People often refuse to contribute in reporting incidents, when windows crashes for example you can send a report to Microsoft, well in this case one can understand why they are reluctant to participate Some may fear that they are not fully aware of the information they are allowing to be included in the report, it might not be only technical.

The interesting new spam comments I noticed, are ones using sentences in legitimate comments mentioned in the post and creating a spam comment with the spam URL that you’ll be directed when you click on the author. So these comments were flagged and went into the pending queue and not the spam queue. I manually identified them as spam. Click to enlarge the picture below.