There is a funny (and true) quote about software engineering!

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning

This is somewhat correct when it comes to Spamming! Spammers are coming with new ideas of spamming everyday. Last month I read a post in Digit forum in which users were complaining about a new way of spamming.

Spam bots register in forums and ask questions which look genuine and after few minutes they register with another user name and answer this question with a link to their site.

Today I had a new experience. I had the following comment for one of my posts.

Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I don’t know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.

It looked genuine to me at first. Even my favourite Akismet plugin,which had protected me from 3379 spam comments so far, failed in this case.  I did a quick google search for this comment and as I suspected our great James has comments 1000s of blogs with the same comment. Good try James