Current trends: Same old

Nothing too exciting is going on currently regarding webspam.

Quite a few spammers still seem to act on the principle "the more the better", i.e. more links in a single post or more post (attempts) per site. You couldn't be more wrong, guys ...

Someone seems to have bought a lot of porn-related .cn domains and is now burning through them. This is so boring actually that I didn't even bother looking further into it.

It's interesting to see that many spammers still haven't realized how easily their spam can be filtered. They come up with posts that almost look genuine and tell some harmless or sometimes even heart-warming tale. And if they weren't posting in English to a German forum, you would almost believe those were real posts. But then they stick one of the typical spammy keywords in them and our filters are having a field day ...