Getting Russian Spam subscribers

  • Resolved pamb083006

    (@pamb083006)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    Email Subscriber plugin has been working fine for the past couple of months but tonight, when I checked our site. I noticed about 50 new “unconfirmed” subscribers and all of them were from “.ru” sites in Russia. The plugin is up to date and I know a few months ago the plugin had this same issue and you were able to fix the issue with a new update. Will you be coming out with a new update to fix this problem? Any way of blocking mail.ru and other .ru subscription request?

    Thank you

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by pamb083006.

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  • Hi,

    We are looking into this issue.
    Please allow us some more time to debug and fix it.
    We will keep inform you.

    Best
    Aditya Shah

    Plugin Author Icegram

    (@icegram)

    Hi all,

    In Email Subscribers Free we have taken care of the majority of security issues.
    But still, there could be a few ways that surpass our security measures.
    To combat that, you could try out Email Subscribers Premium which had the CAPTCHA feature.
    It helps achieve 100% security.
    Hope this helps you.

    Hi,

    I’m also seeing this same issue on my site – it keeps filling up with fake subscribers. I have double opt-in enabled, but still when fake subscribers sign up, I get undelivered notifications (because the email addresses don’t exist) filling up my inbox.

    Please consider allowing some sort of captcha as part of the free plugin – I love the plugin but it’s currently unusable with the amount of spam I get. My site costs around $50 a year to run, so I can’t afford to spend $130 dollars a year to upgrade to pro.

    Thanks for all your work to build this plugin – it’s great, except for this issue!

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by oclambert.

    Hi
    I’m also getting loads of .ru spam. Is there any fix in the pipeline for the free version. Like @oclambert, I’m spending about $50/year to keep my site working and don’t feel an extra $130 is worth it. Despite this I think it’s a great plugin and would like to continue using it but not if this isn’t fixed.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by kevinagar.
    • This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by kevinagar.

    Hi @kevinagar, @pamb083006 and @oclambert

    I would like to update you that we have released Email Subscribers 4.0 which will enable you to block emails from a specific domain and so will help you filtering spam emails.

    Please have a recheck after updating the plugin and let me know your views.

    Best,
    Aditya Shah

    Thank you, having installed the update I’ve not had any spam emails. Two things I don’t like with the update.
    1. It defaulted to single opt-in even though I had it set to double opt-in
    2. It doesn’t show confirmed now
    Other than that I still think it’s a great plugin

    Kevin

    Plugin Contributor Malay Ladu

    (@malayladu)

    Hello Kevin,

    Thanks for upgrading to ES 4.0.

    We will take a look into it and fix it as soon as possible.

    Thanks!

    Hi,

    Thanks for the quick fix on this – I’ve upgraded and since then have not had any spam subscribers.

    Thanks again for a great plugin!

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