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This is a blog spam comment that I received and had to share – finally, a true solution to blog comment spam.

hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it , its just done for higher rankings in search engines. Contact me at (Romanian email address) , i will give you my site url and you will give me yours if you are interested. thank you

If you use the Akismet plug-in for WordPress you can block most of this kind of stuff.

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Posted by: John Jantsch on Sep 05, 07 | 10:10 am
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Lars H

Askimet is awesome.

I combine it with a setting where any comment that has 1 or more links in it automatically goes into moderation, and that pretty much prevents any spam from ever appearing on my blogs.

That Romanian must know a lot of robots, because that's where most of my spam comes from!

Egon

haha, I got this exact same message as a comment yesterday.

John Jantsch

I know, but I got such a good laugh from the message I just had to share it.

Terra Andersen

Yeah I got this comment too! I have been getting tons of spam over this summer.. akismet doesn't block it all. I imagine having a captcha helps quite a bit though.

Angela

Oh that's funny! I love that he hangs out with spammers and he'll tell them to stop...

I use Spam Karma and I've never had any problems with spam at all.

Stropp

Yep. I got this one yesterday too. I thought it was extremely cheeky.

Funny, it's the second one like this I've received lately. The first was a request by a spammer asking my permission to post spam on my blog of all things.

john harper

Where have I seen this type of tactic before - the mafia, neighborhood gangs - now the blogoshpere!

If you pay me, I won't bust your legs!

BlogOxide

what a strategy! interesting but funny! Anyways Askimet rocks!

Rick Whittington

I received this exact blog comment also. Ironically, I flagged it as spam.

I use Akismet for Wordpress along with manual approvals and it works wonderfully.

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