Phantom Comment Spam via Email

  • A blogger to whose comments section I was subscribed passed on some comments spam – 11 pieces – through email. Only, when I checked out the blog, there was no spam in the actual comments section. I also passed spam through his blog from my site.

    Is there a plugin or code tweak to stop this annoying event?

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  • Could it be that the other blogger merely deleted the comment spam from his blog before you clicked over to it? Then you would have gotten the spam comments via email when they were posted, but when you went to the site, they had already been deleted.

    I’m not sure what you mean by, “I also passed spam through his blog from my site.”

    Do you have the Akismet plugin installed? Does your friend have it on his blog? Akismet is by far the best way of dealing with comment spam; I can’t imagine having a WP blog without it.

    Thread Starter miguknamja4

    (@miguknamja4)

    I have it and updated. This has never happened before, of all the blogs I have received comments emails. When I told this blogger I had received comments spam, he said he had received it before from me, too. You might be right: the spam went through email but was then deleted by Akismet.

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