Spam and Email

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  chrisbrownliving · Member · Apr 11, 2013 at 6:52 am

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  Hello,

  I am getting constantly spammed by what is very inappropriate messages. Please help me with this. It keeps filling up my email inbox. How do I protect my site from these messages? I feel as thought the security of my site has been breached.

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Apr 11, 2013 at 8:36 pm

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  Hi there!

  We’ve had a recent spike in spam that is originating from Contact Forms. To help, we recommend you:

  1. Mark all the offensive messages as spam if they get through. This will help our team in blocking and marking these messages as spam in the future.

  2. On you contact page – http://chrisbrownliving.com/im-ready-to-buy/ – I recommend you set the email address field as being required. This will stop the vast majority of these spam from ever getting through. Here’s more information on editing an existing contact form:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/#edit-an-existing-contact-form

  Sorry you’re getting a lot of these, but these suggestions will help us with the problem and help keep your email box a little more empty from this kind of stuff.

  Let me know if you have any questions.