Back in 2012, I shared some comments from my Spam folder. Some were crafted to sound almost like they were from a real person. Others were hilariously obvious robot comments. I notice a pattern: they use flattery and offers of help (or promises to subscribe) to entice me to click on their websites.

It’s not all that “glorious”

Here, then, is a sampling of recent spam comments… or, as I like to call them, “Spamples.” I have not edited these in any way. Enjoy!

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3A. Then, on a completely different post, from a completely unrelated commenter (wink, wink):

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4. Speaking of irrelevance, this comment on a post about my dad’s WWII service (and note, I’ve never used AOL):

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As near as I can figure, the robots don’t use keywords…..

Thanks for reading!
Jan