For the last month or so my site has been getting hammered by link spammers posting nothing but gibberish and links to gibberish sites that dont exist.. These things come from all over the world, hundreds or thousands per day.. WHY? Why do they bother posting these? the links dont even work - what's the point? EDIT: Here's an example: 2cNVNF dpmbbsmvzmlf, [url=http://bbxtkixmjxfj.com/]bbxtkixmjxfj[/url], [link=http://ddmdawzpcsgt.com/]ddmdawzpcsgt[/link], [url]http://ybeympnughlg.com/[/url] Code (markup):
If you mean on your Blog (the one that you have in your sig) then its pretty easy to figure out why... your site was surely included in a list of sites targeted by these spam bots. Solution: just install an addon that requires captcha verification when posting new comments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) Good Luck.
no.. it's not in my blog, it's in another site of mine.. but either way, WHY? WHY post thousands of useless broken links? and oh, Akismet takes care of 100% of them, so it's not a big deal - i just wonder why they bother.