drastic increase in spam

[robbat2]

Since I posted 15 hours ago, I've gotten another 6 spam comments from the same algorithm.

rachelutejy
wendyfidaz
victoriahuder
kellyqubym
devenydylom
hannahowyve
An interesting further trend I noticed on them: Given the same comment input body, they post the identical text, further lending credence to the concept that it's an automatic system.
Original:

Seems like I'm out of luck? This will greatly hamper anything which I want to do with the data.

Spammer:

If I wanted to store my data on the user's drive or on a server, though, I'm pretty-much out of luck.

The spammer's source for the sentence was:
http://www.gamedev.net/features/reviews/productreview.asp?productid=613

Comments

[cupcakecalamity.livejournal.com]

you are like a very nerdy detective!!

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

I'm just annoyed at the spam. 13 in the last 24 hours is a LOT for livejournal, considering that before that, it was 1/week.

[cupcakecalamity.livejournal.com]

I never get it.
You must be a high profile spam taret!

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

google thinks so at least, thanks to my open-source involvement.

how'd we end up being friended on livejournal anyway?

[cupcakecalamity.livejournal.com]

fedex!

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Comic writer Aaron Williams noticed the new spammers too, and blogged about it here (http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/index.htm).

(Here via lj news; your comment caught my attention.)

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

Likewise. I have a feeling that a number of LJ accounts will get purged as a result of this. I'm assuming that the OP has sent the same information to LJ's abuse team as well?

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, reported it all. Only one of the accounts in the original posting has been removed so far (you can see because the lj-user tag changes).

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

*CJ Mongomery Burns moment* EEEeeeeexcellent!