Solid Block of Ise

… seems to be to hire indians to write comments in blogs and produce subtle link-spam to british car rental companies.

The last two weeks or so I’ve had a lot of these comments end up in moderation. The comments themselves look really genuine, and relate to the posting they’re attached to. Most comment-spam looks very generic, like “good job, keep it up!” and such nonsense.

But these seem to be actually written by humans, and is an actual (albeit rather nonsensical) comment on my blog-post. Always with a link to some british car-rental agency or “blog” containing only one entry about car-rental agencies in the UK.

Every single time the IP-adress originates in India. Weird. Well, I guess they’ve outsourced their linkspamming to India as well.

Update (a little later): It seems that these human spambots are now hawking inkjet-cartridges as well. It’s also an excellent example of what these comments look like. This was posted as a comment to my story about the success of getting our laserprinter working under Ubuntu:

Janni | drkuki2000@yahoo.com | [some spam inkjet site].com | IP: 87.202.167.215

Nice post! Finaly good news you could make the printer work. BTW Linux rocks with every application.

If you do a whois in that IP-adress you’ll find that it belongs to an ISP located in Greece. As you can tell from the comment it’s incredibly “life-like” or whatever one might call it. It doesn’t have the trademarks usually indicating spambots since it’s actually almost on topic, as well as not filled with various retarded link-attempts. None the less, I’m not treating this as anything except spam.

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