Spam, Spam, Beans, and Spam

[billroper]

So it appears that the latest technique for spamming your LiveJournal is this:

You'll get a comment from a user that you've never heard of -- assuming that you allow comments from someone who is not on your friends list and the post isn't locked. And it'll say something innocuous like "I like your blog."

When you go to look at the poster, you'll find that they have no friends. And no posts. Today's spammer was created on February 25th of this year, so they clearly get generated in advance of use.

And then you'll get a barrage of anonymous spam posts to random posts in your LJ within the next day or two. Of course, you've screened anonymous posts, so you'll be the only one to see them. And you'll delete them as spam.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I periodically get comments from people I've never heard of, and they often say things like "I like your blog" or "I will come back" and I delete them straight off, because real people comment on the actual blog entry.

I hadn't made the connection with the anonymous spam, though. I wonder if I can change my settings to screen that, since what I've been doing is deleting it as fast as I can check my e-mail, and that is getting old.

Thanks for pointing this out; I will see if I can set "screen anonymous posts" as a global thing.