Gibberish Spam
I’ve been gettigg gibberish spam the past few weeks. I’ll leave one up (see “Recent Comments” on right) for a few days.
I don’t get gibberish spam. It’s like a spam bot gone rabid and started mashing on the keys. There’s nothing being advetised, no backlink to a working site, no Google key words in the text. Maybe this is the first sign of artifical intelligence, like an ape trying to speak without a larnyx.
Another possibility is that the person was sexually frustrated. The post with the comment is titled “Sizzlin’ Hot Girl on Girl Action”. It’s about social security. If I were a straight man searching for GoGA and saw that title on site Pancake City (ooh, sexy cakes!), I’d end up frustrated too. And informed about social security! But frustrated as well.
Time for a three-minute web search. Let’s see if there’s any info on gibberish spam:
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This is the best explanation I’ve found so far.
“The main reason is the Spammers are pushing out millions of gibberish messages is to confuse the anti spam blocking filters. Spam filters that use statistical analysis or Bayesian antispam filter are prone to being fooled by these as “good” messages and therefore change their threshold for allowing such messages to pass. This threshold or scoring method is what many spam filters like SpamAssassin use to determine if a message is spam or not. This is also known as stuffing the statistics and are simply self serving to the Spammers.”
A commenter on another site suggested it may be a way to test if your site is a good target. You put a unique nonsense word string, search for it on Google a few days later, and if you get a result, it means the blog owner hasn’t taken the spam comment down. Using real words woud give you thousands of results back; using “asfosd fssf werwer” will likely only give you one result.