My colleague Ken McGuire posted about this recently also.
I run Roaddeaths.ie, a blog that tracks the worrying number of fatalities on Irish roads. Spam comments run at a rate of anywhere between 500 – 1000 per day at this stage now. Akismet does a fantastic job of removing 99% of those but the number of comments escaping Akismet is increasing. It doesn’t seem to be any particularly clever exploit or anything, these comments contain keywords that are obviously spam like drug names and keywords of a sexual nature. So why aren’t they being caught with the rest of the spam which appears to be pretty much the same?
Just wondering if anyone else has been noticing this trend and if you’ve found any solution.
A word from stop-spam-filter.net
In the recent years spam has become an epidemic problem with millions upon millions of spam emails being sent and received a day. Trying to stop spam is very difficult to do without making your legitimate contacts jump through hoops to prove that they aren’t spam. Special spam filters are often able to stop common spam mails but the spammers are getting smart and are often avoiding filters.
Most of the computer users find the spam as the biggest nuisance after a virus. Many of the spam messages are the ones that offer free computer software .in many cases the spam emails claim to offer even the microsoft office software at a fraction of the actual retail price. These spam messages are usually in the form of a link to a website where the customers can order a number of software products ranging from the mathematics software primarily developed for school kids to the norton antivirus. The sites are typically designed very professionally and can appear to be the legitimate online sites selling useful software.