Creative spam technique
I ran across this creative bit of spam on my site today, in which tons of different urls were embedded into one short comment on my 10-month-old "Goon Squad" post.
That post for some reason has been a spam magnet, generating four fake comments sine May. I quickly deleted the first three, which were very amateurish and made no effort to hide their intent. But in this latest go-round, a spammer embedded different links under individual letters, thereby cramming code for tons of different wristwatch sites into one ungrammatical sentence: "Thanks for you share it!!!!!!!" What looked relatively innocuous on the surface was a snarl of spam underneath.
I've attached an image of the code rather than actual text so I don't replicate the spammer's original intent to drive search traffic. If you have good eyes and know basic html, you can track the secret message.
If only people this creative actually put their talents to productive use.
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