OK, OK, I hear you.. here he goes again, banging on about spam! To give you some idea of how bad spam is for us.. on an average day we receive over 1,000 spam messages .. yes, a day! Many of the messages include phishing and hacking code. In September 2022, time caught up with […]
Stop Contact Form 7 Spam in WordPress
After a flood of spam originating through our WordPress Contact forms with No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA, we needed a fix. This excellent article by barn2.co.uk shows 6 Ways to Stop Contact Form 7 Spam in WordPress The 2 we liked and are now trying are: 1. Quiz Simple quizzes are becoming a popular way to combat […]
Spam Emails: trаnsfer 0.5 bitcоins
Has anyone else received “trаnsfer 0.5 bitcоins” message over the past few days (August-September 2018)? We’re receiving 100 an hour. To make matters worse, setting up a rule to deal with them doesn’t work. First I tried: “bitcоins” and then “0.5 bitcоins” but the rule does not remove all the messages. Any suggestions? From: MiguelGyday […]
Spam Emails: No Senders Email Address
The latest bout of spam emails flooding in is proving to be very difficult to combat. The usual practice of using rules to manage them is more time consuming than deleting them one by one. SPAMfighter is not dealing with them. The issue is that each message has a different: Senders name Senders email address […]
How To Block Senders Name: Outlook
Yes, me again, raving on about how to deal with spam emails. Today I have good news. I get hundreds emails every day that are spam often from the same name. One of the issues that filters have trouble dealing with is spammers that use one name but different sending email addresses. Now, I have […]