Spam A Lot

Yes, I'm getting it.  Alot. 

After almost three years of blogging, I'm suddenly receiving spam, some of it creepy with weird, non- sensical sentences; some of it in a foreign language with suspicious links and some of it friendly comments ending with links to sex sites and escort services. 

We've all received the odd looking comments in an Arabic appearing alphabet.  It may very well be Arabic but I don't know how to translate that! 

Now I'm receiving daily crap which I have to moderate.  I'm wondering if this is because I removed the word verification? 

Advice anyone? 

Mysterious Comments from "ed"

This morning I checked Gmail for new comments to my posts. I found four or five on various posts from someone with the profile name "ed". All comments were in hieroglyphics or html gobbledygook which, I hope is not a computer virus. I deleted all comments but felt the need to link to the name "ed" to read the profile. The creepy thing about that is, it says "Blogger since February 2009" and "1900 views". Nothing else. I'm obviously concerned.

Anything like this happen to you?

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