WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Increased spam getting through WP filters http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increased-spam-getting-through-wp-filters WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Increased spam getting through WP filters en Sat, 25 May 2013 01:39:38 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 phoxis on "Increased spam getting through WP filters" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increased-spam-getting-through-wp-filters#post-811910 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:02:03 +0000 phoxis 811910@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Akismet definitely does an excellent job. We will help Akismet to train over this new kind of spam.

]]> auxclass on "Increased spam getting through WP filters" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increased-spam-getting-through-wp-filters#post-811841 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:32:58 +0000 auxclass 811841@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's just like an arms race - sometimes the Spammers win a few rounds - keep marking the bad stuff as spam and Akismet will learn - but Akismet is way better than sorting through all the junk yourself. Been there done that.

]]> cajsalilliehook on "Increased spam getting through WP filters" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increased-spam-getting-through-wp-filters#post-811773 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:33:36 +0000 cajsalilliehook 811773@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have noticed the same thing. A few were plausible and got approved before I saw the trend of spams with facebook profiles. yes, WP does a great job, but this new spam seems to get around their filters.

]]> phoxis on "Increased spam getting through WP filters" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increased-spam-getting-through-wp-filters#post-811735 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:09:16 +0000 phoxis 811735@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Today i received a stream of Hams, with valid and a non-spam type email ids and with the link of valid facebook profiles. The contents of the comment are fully text and most of them contain the mail keywords which are related to the post. A human reader can detect that although they contain the keywords related to the post, what the commenter has to express is meaningless. I have trashed these comments, now i will mark them as spam.

]]> timethief on "Increased spam getting through WP filters" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increased-spam-getting-through-wp-filters#post-811534 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:26:43 +0000 timethief 811534@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm also marking them as spam.

]]> ontheliner on "Increased spam getting through WP filters" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increased-spam-getting-through-wp-filters#post-811489 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:31:11 +0000 ontheliner 811489@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Search here shows I am not alone in noting a steady trickle of spam appearing on my dashboard as Comments during the past two weeks.

Each line of the spammers ID is generally filled in and they give a plausible email address and a REAL person's Facebook profile for their URL. The comment itself tends to be plausible and neutrally expressed, but often contains garbled characters, which is one giveaway.

Just thought I'd report this - believe me, I am not ungrateful for WP's spam filters that park *hundreds* of unwanted mails in the Spam directory. If you want further details of specific mails, just ask. Otherwise I'm marking them as spam.

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