1000s of spam got through on multiple Gravity Forms despite having Akismet

  • Resolved guyhaines

    (@guyhaines)


    4 months, 2 weeks ago

    I woke up to thousands of spam messages despite Akismet being installed. Here is the content of the message, which screams spammy:

    We suggest

    Sending your message through the feedback form which can be found on the sites in the Communication section. Contact form are filled in by our program and the captcha is solved. The superiority of this method is that messages sent through feedback forms are whitelisted. This method raise the odds that your message will be read.

    Our database contains more than 25 million sites around the world to which we can send your message.

    The cost of one million messages 49 USD

    FREE TEST mailing of 50,000 messages to any country of your choice.

    This message is automatically generated to use our contacts for communication.

    Contact us.
    Telegram – @FeedbackFormEU
    Skype FeedbackForm2019
    Email – [email protected]

    As you can see this is so obviously spam. Wondering why it was not picked up.

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  • Plugin Author Josh Smith

    (@procifer)

    Hi there,

    We’d be happy to help look into that and see why those were missed. We’ll need a bit more info to help find your account and records of those messages though, including your API key, site URL, etc. Can you please submit that through our contact form here and we can discuss through email:

    https://akismet.com/contact/

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter guyhaines

    (@guyhaines)

    Ok just contacted you

    Plugin Author kbrownkd (a11n)

    (@kbrownkd)

    Hi! Since we’re handling this via email, I’m going to mark this thread as resolved.

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