[Plugin: Contact Form 7] Spam getting through

How did you set up the form in Contact Form 7’s admin screen?

The standard way? I’m not s`ure what you mean.

<p>Your Name (required)<br />
    [text* your-name]
Your Email (required)<br />
    [email* your-email]
Subject<br />
    [text your-subject]
Your Message<br />
    [textarea your-message] </p>
 [captchac captcha-57] Enter the text or numbers you see here into the box below
[captchar captcha-57]
<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

Set up Akismet in the correct way.

Spam Filtering with Akismet

My contact form looks as follows now:

<p>Your Name (required)<br />
    [text* your-name akismet:author]
Your Email (required)<br />
    [email* your-email author_email]
Subject<br />
    [text your-subject]
Your Message<br />
    [textarea your-message] </p>
 [captchac captcha-57] Enter the text or numbers you see here into the box below
[captchar captcha-57]
<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

This hasn’t resolved the issue. I continue to receive the same spam messages through my contact form. The interesting thing is that it’s the same exact message each time. I have also tried blocking the specific keywords the spammer leaves via Akismet. In testing the new form, I pasted exactly what their email says into my contact form and it went through without problems.

Yello!

I get spam as well. Text fields are filled with random [a-z][A-Z] and text area has some site related mumbo jumbo. Radio buttons are still in [tag] form in the email, so I believe there is a security breach in the WPCF7. Have to investigate how it is possible to send email without filling out the form ??

Exactly, I can paste the message I keep getting via the form but I don’t want to bring its spam to the forum. I’m not really sure how the spammer is able to get through security settings, they are obviously not using a “known” email provider (one email is 664728034 @ qq.com), the topics and name are just a jumble of letters and symbols (rDpbXeZXzJ) and the message body contains links.

I checked back through my email to try and narrow down the time frame of when this started. For me, I didn’t see these spam emails before 4/23 – could it be a problem with version 3.1.2?