Beware of Idetrorce Disagreements
A flurry of comment spam has been going around in recent days with the following message:
“very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce”
There is no URL and the message is exactly the same on all the blogs where you find this comment.
What is this comment all about and who is Idetrorce?
In my humble opinion, this is a pre-attack campaign for a bigger spam campaign that will come in the next few weeks. The comment above would be okay on most blog posts since it is not trying to link people back to a product of service and it is just a polite disagreement. Once posted on a loosely moderated blog, the blogger might get a bad rap for deleting such a non threatening comment. Read the editors comments on the wormblog comment number 12.
“So I googled and found that it is indeed SPAM.
I am leaving it up though as I would never wish to be accused of deleting someone who simply disagreed with me.”
If a blogger does not block the email address and user name associated with this comment, then they could be opening themselves up to something much bigger coming down the pipe. That is just one man’s opinion. I am not afraid to delete and edit comments on my blog. I have even deleted some comments from people who agreed with me. When it’s my blog I will do what I think is in the best interest of my blog.
I do strict moderation on all comments on some of my blogs. There are very few terms I force moderate on here on this blog, but this user name and email address will be added to my list. I recommend you do the same with your blog. I just don’t have a good feeling about this Idetroce character.
In Wordpress
Go to your Dashboard and select Options/Discussion. Scroll down and enter the user name, email address and IPs from this commenter. By the way, the IPs this person is sourcing from are out of Amsterdam.
[...] of who it was. I’m the curious sort, so I did a google search on the name and came up with this, which was exactly the same comment I’d received. I was initially excited (before I did the [...]
December 16th, 2007 | #
[...] mais informações e como proceder visitem http://www.hoei.com/2007/12/beware-if-idetrorce-disagreements/#comments, [...]
December 16th, 2007 | #
[...] the only one to have similar run-ins with Mr. or Ms. Idetroce. This has been happening all over the globe as well. In my humble opinion, this is a pre-attack campaign for a bigger spam campaign that will [...]
December 16th, 2007 | #
I am the one who broke this story yesterday on my blog and I am very surprised how viral the whole Idetrorce thing has gotten. When I published it and went to work Saturday afternnon, the google search was one page, including my Digg and blog post. Now there are over 7,000 results. Crazy.
The funny part is it took like a good day for the actual Idetrorce to show up and post a comment on my blog. Very ironic.
December 16th, 2007 | #
[...] not just me who is sick of it. Even the Wikis aren’t [...]
December 20th, 2007 | #
[...] bisa jadi Idetrorce cuma spam belaka. Mereka yang rada paranoid mungkin melihat ini sebagai sebuah pembukaan untuk sesuatu yang lebih besar (sebuah spam campaign besar-besaran?) dan menganjurkan agar komentar-komentar Idetrorce dihapus [...]
January 4th, 2008 | #
[...] Idetrorce is and what their motives are. Hank “The Ozz” Osborne of http://www.hoei.com has a sinister thought: In my humble opinion, this is a pre-attack campaign for a bigger spam campaign that will come in [...]
January 14th, 2008 | #