My site is being attacked by spam comments

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  sachaclubworld · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 3:30 pm

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  Hi there my site http://www.clubworlddjs.com is being attacked by spam comments, 200 in the last few hours, can you do anything to stop this?

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 5:07 pm

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  Sorry about the trouble, and thanks for reporting the issue.

  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.

  It looks like all of the comments are on the following page:

  http://clubworlddjs.com/booking/

  You may want to temporarily disable comments on that page:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/#enabledisable-comments

  We have some more information on dealing with spam comments here as well:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/