{"id":1104,"date":"2008-07-03T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/i-hate-blog-spam.htm"},"modified":"2008-07-03T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T19:34:57","slug":"i-hate-blog-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/i-hate-blog-spam.htm","title":{"rendered":"I hate blog spam&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a> is telling me that it has trapped 1988 spam comments in the last 7 days and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us\/\">Bad Behavior<\/a> has blocked a further 5437 access attempts from known &#8220;bad&#8221; IP addresses over the same period.  That&#8217;s pretty alarming &#8211; given that this is a pretty small blog run by one bloke in his spare time (albeit one with quite a lot of posts)&#8230; thank goodness I have these tools to help me out (I&#8217;ve long since given up checking for false positives).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/blog-spam.htm\">I do moderate comments on the blog<\/a> and some of the spammers are pretty blatant &#8211; stuff with suspect links like the spam e-mails we all get in our Inbox &#8211; but, as far as I know, none of those are live on the site.  There are others that are more devious and, despite my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about\/rules\/\">rules for comments<\/a> being pretty clear that I don&#8217;t welcome blog spam, if their product links are relevant to the discussion, then I&#8217;ll generally turn a blind eye (although one guy did repeatedly spam me to promote his product and then had the nerve to e-mail and request a direct link &#8211; as you can imagine, my answer was not a positive one).<\/p>\n<p>Then, this afternoon, I noticed a very sly spammer.  Some time back, I wrote a post that commented on how, after Nationwide Building Society suffered the theft of a notebook PC with several million customer records, they wrote to my two-year-old son and asked him to show the letter to his parent or guardian!  I (somewhat provocatively) titled the post &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/lack-of-business-intelligence.htm\">a lack of business intelligence<\/a>&#8221; and this seems to have grabbed the attention of a blog spammer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You see, when someone leaves a comment on this blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> tells me their IP address (as detailed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about\/privacy\/\">privacy policy and data protection notice<\/a> for this site).  I&#8217;ve removed the commenter&#8217;s personal details but do you notice anything strange about the following comment?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Author : [name removed] (IP: [IP address removed] , inetgw04.unx.<strong>sas.com<\/strong>)<br \/>\nE-mail : [e-mail address removed]<br \/>\nURL    :<br \/>\nWhois  : http:\/\/ws.arin.net\/cgi-bin\/whois.pl?queryinput=[IP address removed]<br \/>\nComment:<br \/>\nI have just taken a job as a CIO at midsize corporation and have been tasked with implementing BI within the organiztion.  This is new territory for me as I was working at a smaller company basically insuring that the essential computing infrasture was in place to insure day to day operations.  One book I was going to mention that has been helpful to me is Business Intelligence Books &#8211; Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App [link removed].  I would be intersted to hear what others are reading out there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s the reverse lookup on the IP address that gives it away.  So you are a CIO at a midsize corporation are you?  Well <a href=\"http:\/\/ws.arin.net\/whois\/?queryinput=149.173.6.110\">your e-mail seems to have coming from a pretty large <em>business intelligence<\/em> company<\/a> (although it&#8217;s not clear what they have to do with the book that is being promoted).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time that a large company has spammed this blog.  After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/01\/dell-customer-service-fails-again.htm\">I criticised Dell for their customer service<\/a> (and to be fair they worked hard to rectify the situation &#8211; for which I gave them credit at the time), someone called &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; left a comment which linked to a forum post showing HP in a negative light.  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