How can I make the spam stop overflowing my inbox?

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    danisdecadentdeals · Member ·

    Hello,
    I need help with my spam filter. Usually my spam is filtered out but for the past 48 hours I have been getting spam coming through to my regular comments section every minute or every other minute…it is the same 3 or 4 origination emails and I have hit spam everytime and it will not stop! Please help! I am deleting every 10 minutes to keep it abay and my email box is a disaster!!

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I’m sorry for the trouble you’re having. :( Here are a few tips that may help you cut down on the spam that’s getting through:

    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. If a comment matches your blacklist, it will be automatically marked as spam.

    You can also change your comment settings under Settings > Discussion in your dashboard. A lot of spam ends up on much older posts, ones that regular visitors are less likely to comment on. To help, you can enable the “Automatically close comments on articles older than X days” setting, and choose a number of days that makes sense to you.

    You may also want to look through your approved comments to see if any spam comments were accidentally approved. If that happens, it can make it harder for Akismet (our spam filter) to catch similar spam. If you find any approved spam comments, you can click the spam link to send them to spam.

    We also have more information about dealing with unwanted comments here: Unwanted Comments and Comment Spam

    If this continues to be a problem, you can also contact our Akismet team directly for more help here: http://akismet.com/contact/

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