Weird Comment Spam #4

I wonder if these spammers have ever heard of the phrase “self-fulfilling prophesy”?

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So their spam message that they’re hoping looks enough like a legitimate comment to make me approve it — hoping I don’t notice all the pharmaceutical spam links after it, of course — is a complaint that most of the messages on the site don’t relate to the contents?

So, well, first of all, what does that mean? The messages on the site are the contents of the site, aren’t they? Doesn’t that automatically mean that they’re related? Or at least pretty similar? Or at least close enough relatives that they shouldn’t be having sex with each other, because eww, they’re practically brother and sister?

Of course, I read their message as a complaint that the comments on the blog don’t relate to the contents of the posts rather than the literal interpretation that the contents of the posts don’t relate to the contents of the posts. For example, maybe they thought that they were reading a post about my cat and the cat things he does — did you know that he eats and sleeps? — and all the comments about prescription drugs didn’t really relate to that. So they made sure to complain about it with their prescription drug links.

I know I’m giving them too much credit. But why would they ever pick some text complaining about off-topic comments before they put in their spam links? Is there a semi-trained monkey somewhere in Romania who writes out these brilliant little phrases for them to use in their spams? Or is this a real person, sitting around brainstorming all day until he comes up with little gems of brilliance like this?

The Depressed Spammer

And then there’s this recent string of comment spam. Maybe the spammer isn’t making as much money these days, and he’s a little depressed. Or maybe it’s an attempt to be some sad Myspace emo kid. Those Myspace kids these days, always with their blogging and their iPods and their spelling!

I feel like an empty room, but eh. Nothing seems worth doing. I haven’t gotten much done today.

Not much on my mind. I don’t care. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me , but shrug. Whatever. I feel like a void.

Basically nothing seems worth thinking about. I haven’t been up to much these days. I just don’t have much to say right now. I can’t be bothered with anything , but whatever.

I’ve just been staying at home waiting for something to happen. Whatever. Not much on my mind lately. I guess it doesn’t bother me.

I haven’t been up to much lately. I’ve basically been doing nothing , but it’s not important. I can’t be bothered with anything recently. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me lately.

Not much on my mind lately. My life’s been completely boring these days. I’ve just been hanging out not getting anything done. So it goes.

Actually, come to think of it, someone probably wrote an emo kid post generator to come up with unique quasi-depressed posts. I love it. I wonder if they contracted that out to some programmer in India: “Hey, can you write me a script to automatically generate depressed blog comments? Here’s $100.”

Then there’s this actual spam comment from the same person:

500 Internal Server Error Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Good job, guys. You broke your spam script.

Then, on a happier — albeit disturbing — note, there’s this one:

You’re website looks very good, it was a pleasure to be on you’re. Keep on the good work

Eww. I don’t want you on me or any of my things. Get off my whatever it is you’re on! (Please note the proper use of “you’re” in my sentence, Mr. Doesn’t Understand English Spammer.)

Anyway, sorry for all the spam. It piles up in my blogs and I have to rant about it once in a while. The sad thing is that these clueless spammers are probably making a good enough income to keep it up (no Viagra spam pun intended.)