I doubt this is a novelty to anyone else with a blog, but over the last 48 hours I’ve had about 80 spam comments caught by Akismet (<3) that essentially look like the following:
zjKjQr sbxmcovtzgxo, [url=http://plhhklapujuy.com/]plhhklapujuy[/url], [link=http://xevartzhiafn.com/]xevartzhiafn[/link], http://wnmubkzwplzk.com/
Unless those mean something when re-converted into some obscure Eastern European or Asian character set, they look an awful lot like random letters, and the URLs (obviously) don’t work. So why go to the trouble of posting them?
Is there a spammer somewhere simply being paid per comment, regardless of content? Is it a broken bot just spewing out trash instead of pulling URLs from a list? An ingenious DDoS attack on WP or Akismet?
Anyway, the healing-related posts will resume soon, this was just interesting/baffling enough for me to want to comment on it.
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It’s obviously Draenei for “click here to claim your free mount”. Damn alien languages.