Yesterday, when I got home from work, I went online just to check on the comments and I found this unusual comment from Jehzeel Laurente.
Jehzeel Laurente | contakt@allmusichit.com | quality-tongue-rings.com | IP: 195.38.53.40
excelent , Great work!Feb 12, 10:12 PM — [ Edit | Delete | Unapprove | Approve | Spam ] — Meet HappySlip Live in Person
Now what do you think is wrong here? This is obviously not from JehzLau because the blog address, ip address and comment content is different.
So what’s the lesson here?
When you get comments on your blog, make sure to check the following to see if the comment is authentic or just a spammy comment.
- Blog address – Comment authors usually link to their own blog.
- IP address – If you know the comment author, you might have an idea on where they live so you can verify their location using their ip.
- Comment content – Every person has his own way of writing. If you notice something different, either that person is a fake or just not in the mood.
Have you encountered this kind of spamming?
Since JehzLau comments on my blog, I basically have an idea on how he comments.
- Jehzlau usually writes in Tagalog Language.
- He also includes an expression such as “waaaaaaaa” in his comments.
So if you want to spam using his name, you should take note of these two ways on how to comment as JehzLau. Now let us start posing as him haha 
Update: Check out comment 9 of this post. It’s somebody posing as Ling, one of my regular readers too. For Ling’s sake, I’ll remove the link and edit the name, but the comment will still be there are an example.
Yes it’s really me.
Btw, I just realized that I got this type of comment last week or a couple weeks back. One spammer used the name of one of the recent visitors who left a comment on my blog. Yesterday, I found another one. The comment was inline with the post but when I checked the site, it was bogus.
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@Jaypee – in that case, you can just delete the link and retain the comment. Nobody gets away with identity stealing in this blog. haha
@Allen,
Sorry it took me a while to get back to you. I use Yahoo as my hosting provider and they are always screwing something up. Half the time their site goes down and I am stuck like that for hours. The plugin I was trying to use was an upgraded version and wouldn’t work with the version of wordpress that I have. I would like to upgrade my wordpress but for some reason Yahoo doesn’t want it upgraded and yet they say they will do this automatically. I called yahoo and all I got from them was a bunch of bull about how they feel that the version of WordPress is better than the newer versions.
@Gaje – I would suggest that you switch your hosting asap. You paid for that hosting but you cannot even upgrade your wordpress installation. You are still running on wordpress…. a low version (I did not mention your version for your protection) but your wordpress version is already very old.
may naccrush kay JehzLau!
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@Rome – Haha it’s a jehzlau fanatic I think
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