Well, here’s a post that I never thought I’d make. I usually go through my spam once a day just to make sure that no real comments have been accidentally filtered out. And for months, I’ve just kind of been silently shaking my head as I delete comment after comment after comment. One day, though, the spam was out of control and I had to tell someone.
So I thought, “Who appreciates my sense of humor and also actually knows that I have a blog? Hmm… Daniel.” So I sent him a million pictures and screenshots (okay, it was maybe more like ten) with some commentary and he told me I should write a post about it! So I did! And, honestly, he deserves like 95% of the credit for this because he also had the foresight to screenshot the best of the snaps and send them back to me. In case you hadn’t noticed, he really is the best.
So, basically, all of these Australian car places think that I’m a porn blog.
I don’t know what I ever posted that makes me literally get hundreds of spam comments each week that refer to me as a porn blog, but it’s a thing that happens and it’s blowing my mind. I got 227 spam comments in one day just while I was at work.
“Me and my neighbor were just preparing sex”
Wow, thanks for letting me know.
Sometimes I get really exciting and wonderful quotes. Other times, they randomly replace words in well-known quotes with “porn” and “sex” and some magic happens. In this case…
“Oh, what a tangled porn we weave, when first we practice sex deceive.”
This is possibly the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
Sometimes I’m just like… is SELL MY CAR trying to proposition me because I’d rather not.
“i am having a look ahead sex touch you”
“definitely you are going sex a famous blogger”
Thank you for the words of encouragement.
And other times I’m like, “Wow, I can’t believe I haven’t gotten any weird sex spam comments all day!” and then I find out that I should have kept my mouth shut.
At least my porn style is perfect.
Do you check your spam comments? What’s the weirdest or funniest one you’ve found? Do you know why all these Australian car places think I’m a porn blog? Let’s talk in the comments!
This is hilarious!
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Thank you! I might have to do part 2 at some point because I’m sure they’re not going anywhere…
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I’m sure my day is coming, I already get weird spam in my personal email. I laugh. I mean, so people really fall for this?
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Oh, I know! Most spam is so entirely unrelated to anything that I can’t imagine it works, but on the other hand, they probably would stop doing it if nobody was clicking their links…
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Or get more crafty. They try stealing my passwords and credit cards all the time with fake emails which I just delete or never see. Good thing I know better.
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I love spam comments, honestly. I got one once that was “you didn’t say that one of the best things about god is you have to play too” which is so ominous and I love it. I also get a ton on non-book review posts that say “great review! love what you said! check out this website!” and it’s like, you didn’t even try
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LOOOOL. Oh my God, those made me chuckle. 😂
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Oh my goodness, that’s great! And I love those “great review!” comments on things like Top Ten Tuesday. I guess I just love weird spam in general. 🙂
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I’m cracking up over this.
– Caidyn
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You know, I never would have started checking my spam if not for your post!
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Well, I’m glad that I somehow caused this but those commenters. You got interesting ones.
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I don’t know whether to be jealous or not!
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Haha, I know what you mean. It’s just… so much… but it’s also hilarious.
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Oh my…😂 “Preparing sex” as if it were a pot roast.
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That really put an interesting picture in my head… 😂
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🤣
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I am CRYING at work over these comments! It also looks like they randomly replace regular words with “porn” and “sex,” but I still don’t know where any misinterpretation could come from.
This reminds me of several letters (yes, physical snail mail) that we received at work (I’m a finance broker for commercial equipment) from one guy that was in jail. While we do get a few letters from jails, usually from serious inquiries, this was over the top with several letters for a loan/grant of $50 billion (not asking for much, right?) who also wanted houses, Mercedes, and limousines. What was their business? Literally selling weed/herbs from out of the country and wanting to buy schools, land, and the like. While none of this was possible anyway due to the nature of the business (we don’t do commercial properties, so schools or any other kind of buildings are out of the questions no matter what), the $50 billion GRANT (money you WON’T PAY BACK) was what topped it. I haven’t gotten any letters from him, come to think of it. I wonder how he’s doing lol.
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A $50 billion GRANT? That’s great!
Pretty recently my boss got a letter from Canada (no phone number, no return address, just an email on the paper) that said his distant cousin had passed away and left him like $1.2 billion dollars if he would just contact them to provide his routing and account numbers. I feel like everyone in the world knows that this is a scam, but I actually had to explain that his distant cousin was not trying to leave him $1.2 billion dollars. Maybe your guy had some luck with someone else.
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I just don’t understand why people go around doing this. I get spam comments, not a lot, thankfully. Most of them don’t making any freaking sense and others are in no way related to my blog posts.
Laughed quite a lot reading your post XD. I mean really hard. You’re a great blogger!
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Thank you so much! I’m glad it made you laugh. 🙂 Spam in general is so funny to me since you’re right, it never makes sense and it never has anything to do with anything!
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These are hilarious – and so is your commentary! 😂
It’s pretty bizarre that car companies would think you’re a porn blog.
I get a load of spam comments but none like this, all mine are pretty boring and all about how (insert website here) has helped them to improve their blog. I’m not sure if I would mind getting spam comments if they were like yours, at least it’d be a laugh! I can’t stop laughing at how they randomly replace certain words.
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Thank you! Finding some weird comments in my spam is always a good part of my day. I’m actually disappointed now if there’s nothing hilarious in there!
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I get so many weird spam messages about some urine if wearing seat belt… I just delete it all
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Yes, I get those weird ones too! I delete like 99% of my spam right away, but there are almost always one or two funny ones in there. 🙂
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I find spam to be the funniest thing for me, I end up checking multiple times a day XD I often get one about zippers and seatbelts and charging my phone?? So they’re not as wild as yours XD
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I get those too! There’s one that’s like back on black with a charger and Houdini, I don’t even know but it’s so weird and I get it ALL THE TIME.
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hahhhaha
Those are hilarious xD
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Haha, thank you, there’s never a dull moment in my spam section!!
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OMG! This is so funny! 😀
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Thank you! 🙂
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I do and most of them are about jesus or god or something lol, but it’s wild that they think you’re a p*rn blog (don’t want to attract more). I’ve never gotten anything sexual in my spam comments, even though when you read my domain wrong, it reads Vicky Whore Ads LOLOLOL
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Oh, I’m sure I’ll be attracting a ton more with this post. I only thought about it after the fact, but I sure used those words a lot here. Yikes.
I’m glad you never get the weird sexual spam comments! I can’t say I’ve ever gotten any weird religious spam, but who knows what’s coming in the future…
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ahahha I think i’d take weird religious spam over sexual ones though!!!
crossing my fingers you won’t get spammed–at least the filter is decent!
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Yes, the spam filter definitely does a good job! I haven’t noticed an increase in my spam yet, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed too. ❤
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I can’t stop laughing!! WOW!
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I’m glad you enjoyed the post! 🙂
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I’ve never checked my spam, but I am now! These are fabulous! People are incredibly crazy!💕
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They really are!! Let me know if you find anything good in your spam. 🙂
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Oh my giddy aunt! This was a wild, hilarious ride! Please do another spam problem post because this was something else!
I am fascinated by the people that do this… because… why?! Why spam? Well obviously its now for your blog readers fun!
I’m off to check mine out now!
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I will definitely do another spam problem post at some point! Did you find anything good in your spam?
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Mine was all incredibly boring spam. Not one person propositioned me inappropriately. 😦
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What?! I can’t believe nobody propositioned you! They must have seen that you just got married. 🤷🏻♀️
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Hahaha! Yep that’s it 😉
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Wow, just wow. Some of these comments start out so nice and sweet and then BAM: sex porn touch. If I were you I wouldn’t be able to deal with the volume of the spam and just leave Gmail to sort it out. I applaud you for reading these!
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Haha, thank you. I’m always worried that there are going to be real comments in there (and there are, a few times each week) so I go through all of them!
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I checked the other day and 95% of my spam comments were from sell my car and it’s just so strange how they just drop the word sex so casually in these comments. I don’t know what I did to deserve all these sex spam comments. 🤓
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I don’t want to say that I’m happy that you’re having this problem… but I’m glad I’m not the only one!!
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I laughed more. These are gold
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You’ll be the first to see round two (which will hopefully have them commenting on this post because that would be perfect)
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YESSSS
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This is so weird. It almost looks like the word ‘to’ is being replaced by ‘sex’
Like “preparing to research” became “preparing sex research”, “I’m very glad to see” became “I’m very glad sex see” and “valuable info to work on” became “valuable into sex work on”
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It really is weird! I agree with your assessment and I think that’s a big part of it. Where they get the porn from, though, is a different story… (And so is why they’re replacing “to” with “sex” in all of their comments.)
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Well… the why might have a much deeper story. People can be complicated
Though it might just a badly programmed spam bot. Especially since all the messages are really generic compliments that don’t even seem to apply to a book blog, or the post they are commenting on.
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These are hilarious, Sara. I haven’t checked spam comments for weeks now, but the most I get are just saying “What?” so I just delete and block the email addresses connected to whoever left the comments. Tumblr’s a different beast thought. I get comments and follows from porn blogs and they’re getting out of hand.
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Yes! I get the “what ?” comments all the time too! And I used to have porn blogs following me all the time when I was on Tumblr. I’m sorry to hear that they haven’t done anything about that. 😐
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“Oh, what a tangled porn we weave, when first we practice sex deceive.”
This really made me laugh hahahaha. This made me want to check my spam. 😂
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It’s the best spam comment I’ve ever gotten!! Did you find anything good in your spam?
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Haha. No, my spam was pretty tame and sounded like random quotes. 😂
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Well, that’s good. The random quotes always make me smile too 🙂 One time I had a quote that was just from “Colin.” Who is Colin? We may never know. 🤷🏻♀️
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Oh my god! I had such a laugh with this post. Makes me look forward to checking out my own spam for such hilarity. Hehehe.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it! Let me know if you find anything good in there. 🙂
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I laughed so hard at this post 😀
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I’m glad you enjoyed it! 😊
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Ahhh Sara I’m so sorry you get all the creepy but also hilarious (???) spam posters!!! Mandy sorts ours so I’m blissfully unaware and until now was like, wow, every comment on this blog is just so pure!! I guess if you have to get spam, get the kind that makes for laughs and good content 😂😁
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Haha, it doesn’t even bother me anymore! At first I thought it was weird and now I’m just so amused that I can’t wait to see what’s going to show up in my spam folder next!
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Never a dull moment! I guess it’s just something you have to put up with when you get a slice of fame 😉
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We get the same exact spam comments and the porn started for me the other day. I’ve suddenly started getting 150 or so spam comments a DAY send help
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I dont have my blog open as most of what i put on there is personal so have never gotten random comments like that but ill say this your posts are always interesting and many males not all but yes many males today are idiots who only thinking with one part of themselves and its not the brain lol keep up the good work 🙂
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Huh I was never even aware there was a separate folder for spam flagged comments until your post! I went through and found mostly advertisements for weird links and Bitcoin but there was actually a legitimate comment from eight days ago that got unfairly snatched and has now been restored. Great post!
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Thank you! I never knew either until I saw Caidyn & Chantel @ BW Reviews post about it one time. I’m glad your spam isn’t too crazy! I haven’t had any weird comments yet today, thankfully. And a kind of surprising amount of real comments are filtered as spam even when they don’t have links!
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I just checked my spam folder for the first time in months and found lots of messages! I feel so bad that people probably thought I wasn’t responding:(
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Don’t feel bad!! I think that’s happened to everybody at some point! It’s crazy how the most normal-looking comments can be filtered out as spam.
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Yes and they were mostly from one of my usual commenters:(
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That makes it even worse 😦 I’ve had comments from some of my favorite bloggers go to spam for some reason and I never understand how the filter makes that mistake!
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I didn’t understand either and I looked around for settings for spam and didn’t find any. I guess I’ll just have to do what you do and check regularly!
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Spam comments are the best. They’re random and so hilarious. These were amazing!
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I’m glad you enjoyed it! Weird spam like this always makes me laugh. 🙂
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Haha this made my day x
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I’m glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
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Bahahahahaha! You seem to be VERY popular in Australia, Sara! *insert “down under” related porn joke here*
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Hahaha, this is maybe the best comment I’ve gotten on this post!!
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Yay! Thank you!
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These made my day! lol
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Oh good! I’m glad my weird spam could make you smile! ❤
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OMG this is hilarious I would die if I got these comments. WOW.
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Checking my spam is always an adventure, haha. Who would have ever thought that a book blog would get comments like these??
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Oh I know. it’s so weird!
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Hahahahaha!! Oh my gosh!! This made me LOL! I have had a lot of crazy ones. I actually haven’t checked it in like a month.
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Let me know if you get any really funny ones!
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Will do!!
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OMG 😂 that’s hilarious and horrifying!
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Haha, it really was! Luckily (or maybe unluckily) my recent spam has been much less interesting!
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I got one asking me if I wanted to become a vampire the other day, lol. They described all of the benefits of being a vampire. Honestly, if it weren’t for the horrible grammar (vampires are distinguished and have superb grammar and spelling), I’d believe it. 🤗
In all seriousness, I wouldn’t have 🤣I did share it on Facebook though!
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That’s hilarious! I’ve never gotten that one, but I would love to know the benefits of being a vampire!!
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I thought I still had the email, but I can’t find it 😦 it was hilarious and horribly written though!
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That’s okay, I believe you! 🙂
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I just discovered this post from your blogiversary one and OH MY GAWD! I’m laughing, but I’m also terrified for you! Is this still happening?
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Haha, not as frequently, but still sometimes! Just yesterday I got a spam comment like this on my review of The Catcher in the Rye, of all things. Luckily it happens far less than it used to!
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That’s so bizarre! I get weird spam emails too but not such explicit ones. Usually mine are about automobiles or political nonsense ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Most of my spam these days is about prescriptions or discount designer shoes, but the occasional weirdly explicit comment still pops up sometimes.
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