{"id":1159,"date":"2010-02-23T16:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T06:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2010-02-23T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T06:09:17","slug":"new-spam-getting-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2010\/02\/23\/new-spam-getting-through\/","title":{"rendered":"New spam getting through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry if you have noticed some comment spams getting through.<\/p>\n<p>Someone out there is using a new technique. As well as their random email address, they are providing a URL to their home page, which is faked as http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com?&lt;random -string>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough to fool my (now aging) SpamKarma plugin into giving them the benefit of karma from the comments I have posted.<\/p>\n<p>The bit that is missing in my understanding here is what benefit they are getting from this. They aren&#8217;t mentioning a product. They aren&#8217;t including a URL to their own page, so there&#8217;s no Page-Rank juice flowing to them. They aren&#8217;t using a single email address, so they aren&#8217;t grooming an account for a later real spam payload. <\/p>\n<p>Are they expecting to have hacked my WordPress account so the random string acts as a redirect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry if you have noticed some comment spams getting through.<\/p>\n<p>Someone out there is using a new technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-oddthinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}