Ok, I’ve posted a couple of really bad phishing attempts here recently. Today’s excitement comes in the form of really bad blog comment spam. Now, you have the ones where they don’t even try, and just post a bunch of links. That’s bad, but boring. This is more entertaining (found on Blogger):
Hello there ##NAME##, I find reading blog articles like ##TITLE## most rewarding. It enhances the experiences of life in many cases.
Being a webmaster I tend to sometimes have a soft spot for blogs related to article database and /or sites that are built around article database type items.
Once again, thank you ##NAME##, Take care now.
First of all, they’re using some poorly written comment spamming software that had fields it was going to fill in with specifics from the spamee, hoping to get them to think that it was possibly a legitimate comment. But since they didn’t get filled in, there’s no way anyone is going to mistake that for a real comment.
Or maybe it’s not badly written software, it’s just that the person using it didn’t know what they were doing. Some kind of incompetent script kiddie version of a comment spammer?
But then you have the awesome line, “I find reading blog articles like ##TITLE## most rewarding. It enhances the experiences of life in many cases.” Yes, whatever the title is of your web site that I’m trying to spam, I’m sure it enhances the experiences of life. Maybe they thought they were spamming a Viagra site?
Ok, not as terrible as that first phishing e-mail I posted earlier in the month, but certainly worthy of the hall of fame here. One day I hope that my humble little Spam and Phish Hall of Fame will be able to compete with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It is my lifelong dream, at least as of just now. I expect it to last until dinner, when I’ll probably get distracted by American Idol and Scrubs and forget all about it.