Let's try this with the right date now

[flemmings]

No need to feel left out. Today I got my first 'Hey This is hard for me because I have never done anything like this.. but I have a huge crush on you' spam lj comment.

I'm puzzled as to the purpose of it all. They must assume that everyone has comments enabled, but do they really expect anyone to click on their link? Malice, stupidity, or both?

(My battery is expiring. Date and time stamp this morning were reset to 12 am Jan 1 1980, pre-internet prehistory. Also precaffeine, so I selected the wrong date.)

Comments

[incandescens]

Congratulations on joining the victimised mob.

Presumably they think that if even one person out of a hundred targets clicks the link, then they come out ahead? I would like to think that the number of people who would do that should be even lower.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

If even one person out of a million targets clicks the link, then they come out ahead.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

But the work involved in setting up an LJ-- or a whole bunch of LJs-- making individual icons and posting comments, seems hardly worth it compared to robospam. The user info accounts I've seen all say they've posted 600 or 800 comments in the week or ten days they've been active. A million will take a while.