WordPress default 'Comment Blacklist' doesn't work

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  jwin2020 · Member · Jun 14, 2015 at 11:02 pm

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  This is the description for the ‘Comment Blacklist’ –

  “When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be marked as spam. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress”.”

  This is the bottom part of my list:

  220.237.105.45
  *@mail.com
  nike
  oakley
  best price
  SEO

  This comment was added yesterday:
  “I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing”
  Even exact match to IP got through.

  Am I using the list incorrectly? Or does it simply not work?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 15, 2015 at 6:29 am

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  Was the comment “I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing” marked as spam? The blacklist doesn’t stop the comments from coming. It’s only supposed to result in comments containing the blacklisted words, IP addresses, etc. being filtered into the spam comments.

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  jwin2020 · Member · Jun 15, 2015 at 6:34 am

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  It was in the pending section.
  I’ll check tomorrow to see if any of them go into spam.