I Did Not Leave a Comment on Your Blog or Forum

If you’ve arrived at this blog by clicking on a link in a comment left on your own blog or a comment left in a forum (a comment supposedly left by me) then I’m sorry to tell you that you have been deceived – but not by me.
I rarely leave comments on blogs other than my own.
I have not left a comment on anyone’s blog other than my own for at least six months.
I have never placed a comment in a forum.

Someone is impersonating me
Doodee’s Thailand usually receives a few hundred hits per week. During the last twenty four hours it has received over four hundred hits, and most of them are coming from comments sections on a multitude of other blogs (I have not left comments on any blogs other than my own during the last six months) and from forum postings (none of which have been made by me).
Likewise my own comments section is being swamped with messages mostly saying, “Thank you for your comment left on my blog” – but I haven’t left any comments on any blogs for longer than I can remember.

I’m sorry to have repeated myself in the above paragraphs, but I want to be sure that no-one could possibly misunderstand what I’m saying here.

I have no idea as to why this bizarre situation has arisen. I’ll do my best to keep you updated on developments.

Please read on. You might be able to help stop this spammer.

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UPDATE – An Excellent Idea (Sunday 3rd February): Flyer has left an excellent suggestion in this entry's comments section as to how this spammer might be defeated. But information about the incoming spam will need to be provided. I don’t have the relevant information because I’m not receiving these spam comments. If you are receiving these spam comments it might be helpful if you would follow Flyer’s advice. It looks to me like it’s worth a try. Flyer’s comment and advice is the twenty first comment in the list. Please take a look at it.

UPDATE (Monday 4th February): Alex has left some interesting advice in the comments list. His comments are the thirty ninth and fortieth in the list.
Re How to block spam comments on Blogger and Blogspot Blogs: Use word verification, as I do. You will find the control button for word verification in Settings/Comments.
I thank all of you for your comments and your support. And I give special thanks to those of you who are offering constructive suggestions that hopefully will help bring this matter to a conclusion.

UPDATE (Friday 8th February): The spam related hits to this blog have been steadily decreasing since Monday, and as a consequence the spam related comments have decreased significantly too. The figures for both items stand at less than ten percent of what they were only six days ago. I hesitate to read too much into only a few day’s figures, but even so I see recent developments as an indication that this spamming episode is drawing to a close. Let’s hope that’s the case.
I recently received a comment from a reader in which he gave a name, postal address, Email address and telephone number for the spammer. I cannot publish this comment without positive and absolute verification - to do so would be very irresponsible. And anyway, if the spammer has stopped or been stopped then I see no point in publishing such information. I see this entire odd spamming affair as insignificant and trivial. I prefer to draw a line under it at the earliest opportunity.
I’ve also received a comment which stated that the spammer’s domain registration was provided by “GoDaddy”. I don’t know whether or not this information is useful to those of us whose otherwise quiet lives have been interrupted by this spammer’s activities.
Once again, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who’ve been so helpful and supportive.
I’ll post to this blog again soon.