Stephen Bolen

It’s always interesting going through the comments on this site. Prior to nuking everything to start over, I had a lot of content and was pretty deep-linked in Google. So naturally, I get spam comments of the designer handbag, male enhancement and Canadian pharmaceutical ilk.

In the past, oh, 24 hours, I’ve received about 40 or so comments on my last post. They’re interesting – a compliment (“Great site! I’m going to subscribe to your feed and send this link around to all my friends!”) with a white-hat SEO link back to their site (“Designer Purses Handbags”).

It’s not working on me (obviously), but it has to be working, or else the spammers wouldn’t be pushing the same message.

Very odd. Be on the lookout.

There’s some new spam goin’ round the tubes, this time it’s hitting via Twitter DMs. A clever message, obviously designed to appeal to the narcissistic bloc of internet users aged 6 months – death:

Holy subdomains, Batman! That should be your first clue not to click on the link.

What’s unfortunate, though, is that many people just like @jaythornton000 did. And who is Jay Thornton?

I’m a professional advertiser with a background in technology and a Masters in communication

Ouch. Sorry you fell for such a crappy hook.