Megan's Web

Recently a friend commented that she had been getting a surprising number of comments on her blog – every day she was receiving multiple comments and compliments on what she thought was a fairly obscure blog post. “They’re not spam,” she said, “they’re just people saying they enjoyed reading the post.”

Being of a suspicious nature when it come to matters of the web, I decided to take a look. Unfortunately, deserving of compliments though her blog posts are, I quickly identified that the vast majority of her apparent fan mail was, in fact, spam. Now this friend is not a fool, and if she can be caught out by the spammers, many others can too. Some of the tricks they use are easy to miss for the unaware, but very easy to spot if you know what to look for. (more…)