Exactly a year ago I made a post about some msn conversations and how much they annoy me. I posted an example of a conversation with someone I didn’t have much contact to apart from having some completely pointless conversations with..
NAME says (18:14): good evening
Cat ftw says (18:14): Hey.
NAME says (18:15): how was your christmas?
Cat ftw says (18:15): Not too bad, how was yours?
NAME says (18:15): yeah not bad at all thanks
Cat ftw says (18:15): Good.
NAME says (18:16): so how have you been?
Cat ftw says (18:16): Can’t really complain. What about you?
NAME says (18:17): fine thanks
NAME says (18:17): same old really
Cat ftw says (18:17): That’s not too bad then.
Cat ftw says (18:18): What can I do for you?
How surprised was I when I looked through Akismet spam to discover this comment on said post:
What the…?
Cat
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had you seen the dance like a monkey part before? That’s pretty creepy!
Hey kstafford,
nope that was the first time.
I get a lot of spam for that post, but mainly about the usual stuff. This one especially in combination with the non existent email/website is just really bizarre..
I mean, “Dance like a monkey”? What’s that all about?
so, did you de-spam it? :-p
i don’t think it’s creepy, just very strange, and it doesn’t seem like spam.
Hey Judy,
nope, it’s still sitting in Akismet waiting for me to do something. I don’t know what’s stranger though, the fact that it’s exactly a year or the monkey part…
Kind of reminds me about the comments that link to google.com, completely pointless.
LOL … That is so strange!
I hardly sign into my msn messenger. For some reason my conversations are much like yours, extremely nonproductive. I haven’t had anybody ask me to dance like a monkey though. Thankfully.
I don’t know what I would do if someone would actually ask me that on msn!
how does one respond to such a request? My knowledge of primate dance-steps is severely lacking. Could he at least be more specific with his creepy requests? Orangutan, chimp, gorilla, silver-back, rhesus monkey? Are we to assume all apes dance the same? :-)
Are the differences in the way monkeys dance? Do they dance?! do they like dancing?
ROFL. But I guess he/she should have asked themselves because how can a Cat dance like a monkey? :P
What the…? [In respect to my earlier comment which happens to have disappeared.]
i think it’s weird. what’s the point of putting that as spam?? sometimes these spammers are getting more and more bonkers.
Lol, that was probably somebody with a wicked sense of humor. Dance like a monkey, LOL.
I don’t think this is spam btw, some people just don’t believe in entering their e-mail ID’s so they make stuff up. I believe this person was just trying to act smart with you but Akismet foiled his/her plans.
‘Dance like a monkey’ is a little nasty phrase that implies your spammer is the master to you, his monkey. Are you any good at dancing?
Lol. I agree with what Ish says. Makes sense. And yeah. I gave up on MSN a while ago for that reason. Convos are pointless on there.
@ Ashish: No idea? I’ve only got this one from you?
@ sulz: There really is some random spam sometimes. Like the ones apologising, etc.
@ Ish: It’s definitely spam, I’ve had three more identical comments now.
@ dmosbon: Nope, afraid not. You any good at dancing?
@ Sha: it’s more just some random people. I had the same on Gtalk as well. But now it’s better, I just remove/ignore convos like that.
Oh, i think thats nothing new. I had a similar spam comment in the past ;-)
I had crazy stuff, just not this!
i actually understand the apology spam though. they left a link, so in a way maybe they’re saying sorry for being a bother. haha, wishful thinking.
Yeah, true. They just make me laugh though!
Maybe spammers have started copy edit pasting things from pages. You never know what all they can do. I guess I need to check my spam queue sometimes too.
I check it every day, cause there are quite a few comments that end up in there. Akismet isn’t failsafe.
Just resurrected comment number 9 from Akismet, Ashish.