Spammers have found me…
I’ve been hit by two loads of comment spamming over the past 18 hours –
they’re all deleted now….
It’s pretty annoying, and quite sad the lengths that an online casino will go to, just to get a better ranking in search engines. Hopefully they’ll be filtered out now.
If anyone is interested in the IP addresses the spam came from, here’s a list which I’ve been building up – I’ll leave the “deny from” lines in case anyone wants to just add them to their .htaccess as they are:
deny from 220.110.194.146
deny from 217.19.50.74
deny from 203.59.134.107
deny from 216.205.208.108
deny from 217.215.34.195
deny from 218.89.107.2
deny from 64.60.147.28
deny from 12.162.224.7
deny from 65.40.197.195
deny from 217.113.34.210
deny from 219.118.174.73
deny from 210.17.164.43
deny from 202.157.81.81
deny from 212.241.87.160
deny from 213.249.236.146
deny from 69.60.109.192
deny from 219.101.248.131
deny from 160.79.249.240
deny from 200.77.144.246
deny from 202.248.22.236
deny from 213.92.68.179
deny from 129.93.40.8
deny from 202.234.131.166
deny from 217.154.168.67
deny from 165.228.4.103
deny from 80.95.128.11
deny from 81.3.16.130
deny from 202.134.124.168
deny from 81.0.141.245
deny from 24.79.222.216
deny from 210.3.40.69
deny from 211.105.232.186
deny from 202.44.175.84
deny from 220.17.0.104
deny from 167.154.2.40
deny from 4.18.162.104
deny from 82.230.128.78
deny from 66.208.130.186
deny from 213.171.248.91
deny from 213.134.171.116
deny from 81.0.141.245
deny from 82.230.128.78
deny from 210.187.10.150
I didn’t start blocking them until the second time around, so there may be more.
Go home spammers, I don’t want your advertising here. Get a real job.
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Well, you are using WordPress, so I have a couple of suggestions for you. First, make sure you have the option to auto moderate posts with multiple URLs in them. I’d suggest
2. Also, make sure you use the spam keywords to auto moderate any post containing certain words. That will get rid of most of your spam.
If they still get through that, then there are a couple of plugins you can look in to as well
Testing. I posted a comment here before and it didn’t appear.
Thanks Ray – much appreciated.
I’d already done both things by the time you posted, thanks to some tips from Anne.
For some reason though, it moderated your comments!
OK, problem solved – a carriage return at the end of the spam words list. Oops! 🙂