Spammers do this to test if the comments appear quickly (i.e. you probably aren’t moderating them). If so, they know that they can dump actual spam in comments.
It’s a kind of ‘white hat’ spammer thing. The ‘black hat’ version would just be to launch the actual spam first.
Thanks Rik,
So that is why I felt being watched 😉
Spammers do this to test if the comments appear quickly (i.e. you probably aren’t moderating them). If so, they know that they can dump actual spam in comments.
It’s a kind of ‘white hat’ spammer thing. The ‘black hat’ version would just be to launch the actual spam first.
Thanks Rik,
So that is why I felt being watched 😉
I am sure that Akismet will kill the actual spam.
It wasn’t rot13 encryption, I checked! 🙂