I've been seeing some odd comment spam on one of my sites. Odd because there are no links posted. Just, Wow, that's a really celevr way of thinking about it! or similar. Note the typo. The messages change but they almost always seem to have a typo. I'm wondering if that may be on purpose, perhaps as a way of tracking successful comments or some such (like subtly and uniquely altering several copies of a classified document to pinpoint who a leaker was).I've noticed that often one of the fields will be left empty, inluding the comment body. This suggests to me that this is a bot that's testing for honeypot fields.Anyway, the baffling thing about these is that there are never any links posted. I can't figure out what the point of this would be. Any ideas?
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Are you sure they're not leaving links in the author field? 99% of blog spam comments that I get have the spam link for the author and a seemingly innocuous message for the body.It could also be that if you have a non-standard comment system bots are finding it but not filling out the fields correctly because, for example, one of the IDs is different.