Constant spam comments

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  kmiranda180 · Member · May 20, 2017 at 2:30 am

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  My blog (which I have not updated in months) has had a ton of spam comments posted to it every few minutes starting last night. It’s a real pain to be bombarded by these comments and have to manually delete them. Anything similar happening to others? What have you done if this happened/is happening to you?

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  gijsgrob · Member · May 20, 2017 at 2:14 pm

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  I’ve had the same thing. Comments that are normally filtered away by Akismet. Not sure what’s happening…

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  staartmees · Member · May 20, 2017 at 2:30 pm

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  Do not just delete those comments, but Mark them as spam if they are not in the spambox.

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  justjennifer · Member · May 20, 2017 at 3:25 pm

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  Hi there, thanks for reporting this. Other WordPressdotcom users have reported an increase in spam as well. You might want to read this earlier forum thread for some background: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/alot-of-spam-comments?replies=13

  As @staartmees mentioned, if these comments have found their way into your Pending approval folder, mark them as spam so that Akismet learns to recognize them as spam.

  Let us know if you need anything further.

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  th3d4rkn1ght · Member · May 21, 2017 at 4:48 am

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  It is becoming a little tiresome to see my inbox flooded with spam asking for approve request.

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  justjennifer · Member · May 21, 2017 at 4:51 am

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  @th3d4rkn1ght I just replied to your other comment at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/alot-of-spam-comments?replies=15#post-2950488 Thanks.