I’ve observed a new type of blog comment spam: spam apparently designed purely for reasons of harassment. The spam comes in with no functioning URLs, just links to garbage addresses that have no corresponding site. No product name, no forwarded web site, nothing. It has no profit whatsoever for the spammer that I can see, except perhaps if they get their jollies by peeing all over other people’s web sites. Not that I thought that spammers were any less scummy, to be honest. But they went pretty far in making the spam hard to delete: each one has only nonsense words which vary from spam to spam; each gives a unique (and fake) IP address; and each has different URLs.

Fortunately, I did pick up on one point: each fake, junk URL had a common text string–just a few letters–which were unique enough that I could use it in MT-Blacklist. Otherwise it would have been impossible to block, and each one of the possibly hundreds of spam comments left would have to have been deleted one by one. The common string allowed me to zap all that had been laid and block the others coming in.

Nevertheless, this is getting way out of hand.