Suddenly Lots Of Spam

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  genepensiero · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 4:39 am

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  is anyone else suddenly (like in the last 24 hours) receiving a lot of spam that Askimet isn’t filtering out?

  in the last few hours i have suddenly been getting a ton of spam comments with just 1 long alpha-numeric ‘word.’

  nothing has changed in my configuration that i know of. wp-security scanner says i’m ok…

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 4:50 am

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  Not noticed anything here, mate.

  Just mark it as spam and move on.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 4:51 am

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  I’ve been getting more for the last three days or so, today Akismet started putting them in moderation. I guess it’s learning.

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  aw1923 · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 4:55 am

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  I have had a couple of comments that have come through that were spam lately, and it hasn’t happened before. I just marked them as spam and they appeared in Askimet the next day. And, thanks to you I just discovered http://www.wordle.net/create LUV it…I like discovering new interesting sites.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Nov 13, 2008 at 5:05 am

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  Spam ninjas are on the case.

  Akismet issues should be reported here: http://akismet.com/contact/

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  genepensiero · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 4:10 pm

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  thanks for the responses.

  i immediately marked all the comments as spam when i received them, but i was just shocked at the sudden lapse in excellence that i’ve always enjoyed with Askimet.

  things seem to be back to normal now.

  @aw1923 – glad i could share wordle with you. hope you come back and visit sometime!

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  beemeister · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 7:17 pm

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  FYI, I got a boatload of spam after midnight last night…all gibberish. I was doing a lot of updating last night, and then this morning I noticed all the spam. Akismet caught them all…yeehaw!

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  lizii · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 11:08 pm

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  I did too, actually. I came online this morning and suddenly my spam count rocketed and I had a queue.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 14, 2008 at 6:22 am

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  It’s not just WP.com. It’s independent WP as well and I’d guess Blogger and other platforms as well.

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  ellaella · Member · Nov 14, 2008 at 11:48 am

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  After getting 4 or 5, I noticed the IP numbers were the same or in sequence, so I added them to my moderation filter, plus the next in sequence, and that worked. They’ve stopped now in any case.

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  salohcin · Member · Nov 20, 2008 at 11:13 pm

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  I’m getting lots of spam too. Kind of annoying have to delete the notification email plus the spam comment itself on WP.

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  morleyblog · Member · Nov 21, 2008 at 5:01 am

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  Same problem here. Also spam in my email over the last month, which has been filtered 100% until recently. Why don’t these jokers get a job?