Why did I get a MySpace "Request to Approve Comment"?

I sporadically get these messages too, actually. As I've written about before, MySpace has tons of cool people, but a lot of scammers and spammers who try to subvert the system for personal gain. Some of them I can deal with, if they're leaving comments with a link back to their site or promoting their business in fairly low-key ways. But some people push further and try to inject code snippets, JavaScript exploits and even Java applets into your comments, code that can be sufficiently malicious that it can actually break your MySpace profile. Not good.

If you read the message from MySpace, you can tell they're warning you too. Here's a recent one I received:

"XXX has posted a new comment about you on MySpace!

"Although your privacy settings allow comments to be automatically posted, the following comment contains an embedded object. Embedded objects may generate popup ads, read cookie information, or perform other functions outside the scope of acceptable use. Please click the link below to approve or deny this comment."

Confusingly, the message from MySpace actually includes the offending code, but at least it's just in my mailbox, rather than something polluting my MySpace profile page.

Nonetheless the end of the message includes:

Needless to say, every single time that I receive a comment of this nature and have the chance to approve it, I don't approve it but delete the comment instead. That's done by simply choosing "delete" the clicking "submit" and... you're done and the offending comment is gone, and good riddance!