No estoy seguro de si esta técnica ha sido de alrededor de un tiempo o qué, pero me acabo de dar cuenta. Alguien acaba de intentar dejar un comentario en un post antiguo aquí en Theme Lab con el típico “buen post gracias” y un smiley 🙂 como texto ancla (o imagen en este caso).
Cómo se hace
Estos spammers se aprovechan de los usuarios de WordPress desprevenidos mediante la vinculación a su sitio con una imagen sonriente como esta.
¡Guau! Realmente impresionante post! <a href="http://example.com">:)</a>
El smiley se convierte en una imagen que se muestra en el panel de moderación de comentarios de WordPress.
Cómo detectarlo
En el panel de moderación de comentarios, debajo de la imagen del smiley verá un pequeño subrayado apenas perceptible.
Esto indica que el smiley enlaza con algo, probablemente un sitio que no aprobarías.
Conclusión
Supongo que los spammers nunca dejarán de pensar en nuevas formas de enviar spam, pero es mejor estar al tanto de las nuevas técnicas a medida que aparecen. ¿Alguno de vosotros ha visto antes este tipo de spam de comentarios?
Since I started my blog about a year ago I’ve had something to the tune of 6,000 spam comments caught by the Akismet plugin. Thank Jesus I installed that plugin. When I started my blog I knew nothing about wordpress so I just as likely could of not installed it.
I don’t understand the ones that just add random letters..what’s that all about?
Lately I’ve also been getting a ton of spam in my instant message program mostly my Yahoo. I just block them but again with the random letters..
Do they contain scripts? Just curious if anyone knows that answer to that one.
Thanx for the smiley tip I’ll make sure to spread the word on my blog and keep an eye open for the little buggers. *wink*
Wow, now that is tricky!
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Very clever. One wouldn’t realize that the smiley was a link. 😉
That is definitely some sneaky stuff there. Good eye. :):):):):)
Oh yeah. None of those smilies at the top have any links for your information. 😉 <- Now how about this one! =)
Wow…I don’t know if I would have caught that small line. I guess they will always find a new way to spam, huh?
@Pangeran: No worries. 🙂
Yeah, Leland…
I was just joking…
Don’t mind that…
Keep in mind I wrote this post with the intention of making people aware of this “smiley spam” technique to defend yourself, not to use it on other blogs.
@Bcarter: I’d have to agree with you. Comments like “nice post” don’t really contribute to the conversation at all so I tend not to approve them.
Thanks for the tip. Most of the comments that I receive stating “nice post” or something like that go straight to the trash anyways. In fact, lately most of my comments have been spam, to the tune of 30-40 per day on my oldest blog.
But when you – like I do – get “nice post” on a blog that is only in norwegian, it is rather obviously that it is spam.. 🙂
hey this is pretty sneaky of the spammers… i geus you have to take them with a pinch of salt… i cant quite say yet as i have not had any major spammers on my site or blog but its growing in interest so maybe soon..
say what do people feel about people promoting their work or blogs that are relevent to posts on comments…?? is it un fair as it seems to be the only way that i can truly get people to view my blogs
heres mine now… http://trcwest.com/blog/
let me knows… by commenting on my blog or here??
Just my own opinion, but I don’t think your blog is relevant to the post… therefor as a blog author, I’d have left your comment but remove the link. This is usually how I deal with “mild” spam, i.e non-professional spammers who just tend to have bad blog etiquette and keep on dropping off their link for no reason (not saying it’s your case ;-))
Pro spammers are sneaky… recently, I got a lot of messages in Russian, seems that Akismet still has to learn the language 😆
I never thought of this thing…
Wow, if I’m doing that on a do follow blog, what a decent transparent link back I have… 🙂
Ive never seen it, but thats f^&*ing clever, hmmm, im going to try it lol =D Not for spamming with bum sites, just for like decent sites, that could benefit both people lol. 😀