How can I stop the huge increase in spam?

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  patcegan · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 11:30 am

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  I am getting large amounts of spam in my spam file….four times the amount I got before. Can you tell me how to stop this or why it is happening?

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  eurello · Staff · Feb 4, 2014 at 10:24 pm

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  Hi Pat,

  If it’s going into your spam folder, that’s all working as intended. You’ll get more spam as your blog gets more popular, but as long as it’s going into spam, then you can just ignore that folder altogether.

  You can read more about this here:
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/whats-the-deal-with-spam/

  I see you’ve also set your Akismet setting to strict here:
  https://patcegan.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php