On spam and flattery

"You must get tired of people telling you what a great blog you have. Hope you don't mind one more!" it says, while using the username "Free Ringtone Downloads" and linking to some dodgy site...

One wonders how the spammers are getting here -- I had one spam comment in the last couple of years on my old blog, then within 24 hours of switching to wordpress the spammers discovered it and set off their bots, and I had 3 comments in the "pending approval" queue by the time I woke up...