Big increase in spam comments

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  mycrazygracedlife · Member · Aug 29, 2013 at 4:35 pm

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  All of a sudden I’m getting spam comments like crazy. Many of them are not being filtered out. It’s scaring me…. why have I gotten 30+ in the last two days? Have I been hacked or is there something I need to do?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Aug 30, 2013 at 11:30 am

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  Hi there,

  Sorry about the trouble, and thanks for reporting the issue. Please rest assured that spam comments aren’t a sign of being hacked, so there’s no need to worry. There are, however, some steps you can take to deal with these spam comments.

  If a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text, I suggest adding that string to your blacklist:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

  You can use the comment author’s name, IP address, web site, as well as the comment itself. Please make sure the word is not something contained in non-spam comments. For example, if you enter “press” as a blacklisted word, “WordPress” will match.

  Also, please mark those comments as spam instead of just deleting. Our Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from a pattern of the comments that are marked as spam.

  You can also learn more about dealing with unwanted comments here: Unwanted Comments and Comment Spam