The Viagra Spam Report

Before the Halloween season, I engaged in a little phishing expedition for spammers (Why I Need Viagra). I have some results to share.

First, I should bow to Wendy, my wife and chief blog proofreader. She warned, "You're asking for trouble" after reading my Viagra blog. She was correct. I should have listened to her. In fact, I'm sure this country would be a better place if men, including President George Bush, heeded more the advice of women. (That should get me back in her good graces).

Interestingly, the first comment spam I received on that blog had nothing to do with Viagra or sex or anything x-rated. It was a spammer pitching Christmas music for the cello. Why did I get it? My guess is that a previous comment contained the word "cellist." So comments appear to be scanned too by spammers using search engines to find popular websites for their spam, whether it's travel discounts, gambling, investment strategies or music downloads. Always somebody trying to make money here.

On my Viagra blog, I did get a spammer pitching Viagra, which confirmed my suspicions that spammers target-search blogs like the one I posted. Another spammer offered a more mechanical male enhancement approach to my problem in another comment. Won't go into details but I left the comment there for now. Then there was another comment spammer who goes by the name "Enlargement." Although I was sure he wanted to pitch a Viagra-type solution to me, ironically he was selling scrapbooking supplies. Wrong blog, fella. My blog Scrapbooking for Men was probably where he wanted to advertise.

I received several comments with links to pornography sites. This was a completely unforeseen consequence of my blog. I’ve no interest in sponsoring links to sites containing obscenity, nudes or anything voyeuristic. These comments I deleted, though there still may be one out there I can't find. I get e-mails through Yahoo telling me who commented and what they said, but it doesn't tell me where they said it.

So now I'm getting spammed regularly and often. My wife can say, "I told you so." What to do now? I could eliminate anonymous comments, but I've been told I have relatives that post here anonymously. I don't know who they are, nor what they've posted, but I guess I should be polite and let them post.

One thing I will do for sure here on Big Daves’ Blog, especially with the holiday shopping season coming up. Stop phishing for spam;)