Funny thing ....

[unixronin]

...I've suddenly started getting spam comments on five-year-old LiveJournal posts.

Do they think that if they only try to comment-spam five-year-old posts I won't notice?  Do they think that anyone but me will actually SEE spam comments on a five-year-old post?

This entry was originally posted at http://unixronin.dreamwidth.org/824846.html.

Comments

[fair_witness]

I think you're the third or fourth person on my FL who's said something about this in the last couple days. Is your spam a YouTube link, too?

[hugh_mannity]

I had a couple, both on posts I made to communities , one from 2006 the other from 2003. They can't spam most of my journal because it's friends only.

The email notification has what appears to be a you tube link in it --- I don't know what the link is too, I haven't followed it. The link photo is of a page of text.

Neither of the spammers appears to have an LJ account -- or at least LJ couldn't find one. Nor do either of the comments appear in the comments to the posts.

[mr_spock]

I stopped seeing any new spam when I reset my blog so only friends could comment without being screened. But I'd have to say that not clicking through to find out what's on the other side is smart.

[unixronin]

I've had mine configured almost forever to allow only registered accounts to comment.

[unixronin]

The most recent one was an embedded video. I didn't look to see what it was.
The one before that, a test link to someplace Russian.