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Spam spam spam, if there’s one thing nobody likes, its spam. Unfortunately some people thrive by bothering, pestering and misleading others. Bryan Fleming is one of those people. Yes, a Blog Spam Whore Extraordinaire in fact, who can’t help himself but to post the same old comment on any blog he can find, whilst using at least ten different aliases for himself. We say at least ten, because we got tired trying to find more of his bullshit comments.

We’re willing to make a bet with you guys that at least 80% of you has had the following comment in one of your blog posts, and we’ve seen plenty of bloggers reply to the comment, all tricked into believing this was an actual interested visitor:

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

Some bloggers get extra lucky and get two at the same time!

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So what does Mr Fleming do it for? Probably for getting backlinks to his network of sites, thus increasing PR and selling links (in the footers), which just happen to look like more spam links (loans and mortgages etc) and making a few pennies with Adsense.

Nothing wrong with making a few extra bob online, but if you’re clever enough to come up with a “comment” that gets through the AKISMET spam filter, why are you silly enough to use the same line over and over and even leaving those duplicate comments on the same blog posts? And what’s with the pretending to be someone else, every time you leave that comment?

A sample of the sites we found that are owned by Brian “Schizo” Fleming:

  • http://www.everydaymarketingideas.com/
  • http://www.directmarketingnewsline.com/
  • http://www.goodcustomerserviceblog.com/
  • http://www.easynegotiationtechniques.com/
  • http://www.personalfinanceblogarticles.com/
  • http://www.investingworldtoday.com/
  • http://www.estateplanningcareer.com/
  • http://www.businessmanagementlife.com/
  • http://www.why-outsource.com/
  • http://www.productivityplanner.com/

Spam is bad, bryan_fleming@hotmail.com / bfleming98@gmail.com. Surely you wouldn’t want your email address online and indexed by spambots so they start bombarding you with useless and time-consuming crap? We all spend countless hours a month wading through the spam box to see if we didn’t accidentally miss a real comment because of people like you. Anyway, we’ve blocked “Matt Hanson”, “Allen Taylor”, “Mike Harmon”, “Chris Moran”, “Tim Ramsey”, “Tina Russell”, “Jason Rakowski”, “Aaron Wakling”, “Susan Kishner” and many more of your non-existent clones, and we hope that our diligent readers will have a look at their comment section to chuck your comments right in the bin, where they belong.

Oh, and thanks for being the inspiration for today’s post, we couldn’t have done it without you.

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