As an author of internationally shortlisted and longlisted mystery novels, I am used to receiving emails which tell me someone has read my book and urgently wants to recommend it to a Hollywood producer who will make it into a guaranteed Oscar-winning movie. Interestingly, these people never make any specific reference to my novels, other than the titles. Obviously they haven't read them and are only looking for the opportunity to charge me a big sum of money for acting as my agent.
Similarly, it seems people will find your blog and spam it with messages of congratulation saying how wonderful it is. From the text in the posting link, it seems most of these spammers are advertising dubious services, though some advertise legitimate web sites which, however, have no connection to the subject matter of your blog.
Two actions you can take
1) Delete all the spam comments
2) On Dotclear there is a "Bad Words" filter to which you can add obvious suspicious words. "bodyguard" is one I have just added, also "escort" and "coaching".
If these techniques prove ineffective, Dotclear, and no doubt other blog servers, provide additional spam filters that can be activated.
The final resort is to block comments altogether.
My apologies to anyone who sent me a genuine comment recently but which I deleted thinking it was spam. I welcome comments but please say something specific about the post you are commenting on, or it will just look like spam. For the same reson, I can only accept comments in English or Spanish, as I have no way of checking other languages.
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