Rantings, mostly…

I was reviewing my spam folders and happened to notice an e-mail supposedly from ecobanknigrplc@aim.com.  Basically it was one of those, “Hey I’m some random African prince looking for an American carrier to help me get my inheritance.”

But this one had a twist.

“This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations To Central Bank to pay 150? scam victims $100,000 USD (One Hundred?Thounsand Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $100,000 USD compensations funds.”

Wow, I bet this actually fooled quite a few people.  “This e-mail must be legit because it talks about how people have been scammed!”

Anyway, long story short, I scrolled down a bit and saw this:

“Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail — Unlimited storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.”

Hahaha, yeah… right!

I have just unchecked the option of, “Users must be registered and logged in to comment.”

Let’s see how well Spam Karma does it job now.

After publishing my previous post on how much I love Spam Karma, I got to thinking, I don’t believe any new spam beyond that point had been removed.

Or rather, no comments period seemed to be coming through.

So the first thing I did was see if I could register a user name and post a comment.

…the e-mail never came to inform me of my password.

I killed all tables, and reset the default factory settings pertaining to Spam Karma and all of a sudden, users are registering, and already there is a comment to the previous post.

I can’t help but think that Spam Karma may have gotten bogged down with all the logs it was keeping.

I have since changed the settings to basically clean up after itself after a relatively short period of time.  Keeping logs no longer than 2 weeks old for example.

So, if you experience any problems with this plug-in, try giving that a go.

I was checking my server’s logs today, and noticed that in the past few days hits have jumped dramatically.  So much so that well, I am thinking about adding all that Google-ish stuff to you know, make me a 1/10 of a penny per click and all that jazz.

Not bad though, almost 10,000 hits last month.  Don’t know why… most of my content sucks (OK, arguably all of it sucks).

Seriously though, it seems to me that people just *love* to attempt to insert spam comments.  What is so funny, is that most of these *bots* actually pass CAPTCHA tests.  Ooo, spooky!

As of this post, 67,727 spam comments have been “eaten.”  If you run WordPress I highly suggest you check out Spam Karma 2.