I've heard of bloggers being ripped off, but this is occurring in reverse.
I ran across a post that started like this:
Ontario Emperor wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Every hero needs a reason to keep going.
This then links to another post - one which I did not write. In fact, it's credited to someone called Mazzon. But I don't know if Mazzon wrote it either.
Posts
Tom Petty's second and third breakdowns
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I just authored a post on my "JEBredCal" blog entitled "Breakouts, go ahead
and give them to me." I doubt that many people will realize why the title
was...
3 years ago
5 comments:
Whee! Gosh I feel important now. Someone quotes someone quoting me. Yeah, I did write it.
Glad I can give credit where credit is due. Not sure how my name got attached to it.
I can tell you that!
It's actually a very common spambot technique. They pick a random post, attach a random name, and put a link to German catheter porn in the homepage field, or whatever.
The idea is that this completely natural looking comment flies under the radar.
(Oh, and if you're wondering who I am and what the hell I'm doing at your blog, I followed another such comment here.)
Learn something new every day...
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