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 does not appear to be dealing with them. The issue is that each message has a different: Senders name […]
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 […]
Spam Idea: Outsmarting Spam
I’ve got an idea how to automate moving spam from the inbox to the delete folder: I operate a publishing company with multiple email addresses. Every day, spam messages flood in with the same spam message going to multiple email addresses. This means, this is a way of identifying spam which is an issue for […]