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

[sraun]

I just had one of those random replies ("I really appreciate the information" as a reply to a Happy Birthday post?), and - after investigation - deleted it as spam. It looks like LJ has changed their system - I got asked "this will disable the account, do you really want to?" I said yes.

I'll have to watch for the follow-up anonymous spam.