Is this plugin a scam?

And what hacks may that be?

And what web hosting company do you use?

This plugin is at the wordpress plugin site for 6 years now. Don’t you think WordPress would have taken it down and that this forum would be filled with complaints if it was a scam / bad plugin?

It sounds more to me that you have a web host that does not know what it is doing. And there are most definitely a whole load of bad web hosts out there.

Pascal, apologies, was asking not accusing. Could have been the other plugin that ironically enough was also a security plugin. Love the concept of iQ Block Country, but was not able to get it to work. After activating it and uploading the database, I was still getting attacked from the countries I banned. The hackers from Russia are particularly aggressive — about 300 attempts to log in every hour. What I may do is set up a sandbox on a different host and try your plugin again, perhaps it was falsely identified by my current host provider.

My apologies if I sounded a bit harsh. Didn’t mean to.

I just come across a lot of hosting companies that have no clue about the real server stuff and just pinpoint to a CMS, plugin or other script as usually their clients have even less of a clue as they trust that their web hosting company knows what they are doing.

Perhaps this section of the FAQ answers your question about hacking attempts you may still see:

How come I still see visitors being blocked from other security plugins?

Other wordpress plugins handle the visitors also. They might run before iQ Block Country or they might run after iQ Block Country runs.

This however does not mean this plugin does not work, it just means somebody tried to access a certain page, post or your backend and another plugin also handled the request.

If you are worried this plugin does not work you could try to block your own country or your own ip address and afterwards visit your frontend website and see if it actually works. Also if you have access to the logfiles of the webserver that hosts your website you can see that these visitors are actually denied with a HTTP error 403.