{"id":8288,"date":"2012-11-07T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2012-11-07T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:47:17","slug":"my-spam-plagiarizes-brandon-sanderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/07\/my-spam-plagiarizes-brandon-sanderson\/","title":{"rendered":"My spam plagiarizes Brandon Sanderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember how I told you<\/a> that spam had gotten more devious lately, offering eerily on-topic posts that could pass for comments from real people, if you didn’t notice that the poster’s link would send you to a spam site?<\/p>\n

Well, it happened again. I just checked out my spam folder, and found that the following had been caught there due to the sender’s address linking to a site (which I certainly won’t link to here, though I’ll show you a screen grab so you can see what I mean) offering offshore bank accounts in Panama:<\/p>\n

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The convention is sold out\u2014but I have ONE WORLD FANTASY MEMBERSHIP TO SELL. Pemberly was going to attend the convention with me after half a week in New York, but Hurricane Sandy changed our plans. So if you are in Toronto but don\u2019t already have a membership and are interested in seeing dozens of big-name authors and editors (everyone on this list and this list ), consider buying Pemberly\u2019s membership. This is the most expensive convention that exists in the field (the cost is $250 Canadian), but if you\u2019re serious about publishing, it\u2019s worth it. A previous World Fantasy in Canada (in Montreal, 2001) is where I met my Tor Books editor, Moshe Feder. So if you\u2019re interested, drop me an email using the email interface on my website .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The most bizarre thing about this?<\/p>\n

The paragraph above was written by an actual human being—Brandon Sanderson, who posted those words <\/a>on his own site, from where they were filched in an attempt to induce you to click and be trapped by a spammer.<\/p>\n

So look carefully before you approve comments on your blog—because the spam is starting to be smarter than we are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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