'Likes' spam
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Hi folks,
Is Akismet broken? I woke up to a bunch of ‘likes’ on comments from a URL starting with ‘www.sexy’ and ending on .ru, .website, .pw with inbetween any combination of characters… 9 of them. Also one on a comment I gave on a site I follow.
Cannot find anything on my dashboard to block it and Akismet does not seem to be aware of it. They only show on my blog and under the ‘notification bell’
It’s only ‘likes’ – but looks like spam to me nevertheless…
And no, I don’t visit ‘shady’ sites! :-)
Could someone please help me get rid of this ‘visitor’.
Thanks and best Easter wishes to all
Nil
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The exact same thing happened to me, on http://www.nanasworldweb.com. Sounds like the same “people” and they were all likes on comments I had made, not on actual posts. I don’t feel comfortable with it because like “nil1950” I don’t visit shady sites either!
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Hi there,
Akismet filters comments and contact form submissions for spam, based on the content. Likes don’t contain any content, and Akismet doesn’t check them at all.
But we are aware of the current Like Spam issue and working on blocking them. Please subscribe to the thread at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/like-spam-from-russian-spammers?replies=19 for any updates on this issue.
Please don’t visit those sites – that is the whole point of this spam attack: the spammers are hoping to increase traffic to their own sites this way.
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There is a longer thread with more information here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/like-spam-from-russian-spammers/page/2?replies=46#post-3089679
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