More spam comments get through every day

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Hi, I’m experiencing the same behavior of spam comments getting through at a rate of 1-5 a day. It looks like the Contact option is unavailable today (https://akismet.com/contact/). Is there anywhere else I can go to have this investigated?

Thanks.

hello

i have been receiving more spam comments not filtered as spam since i updated my worspress to 3.0 and akismet plugin 3.0.2.

i am wondering if there is known issue with the latest version of akismet plugin.. i also have noticed an acount started following my blog on wordpress.com name starts like akismet-***.

the contact form is on vacation now so i leave my issue here and wait for this thread will be updated.

thank you

I’ve has similar issues with spam comments daily.

I maintain over 100 WordPress websites, all with Akismet activated. I likewise has seen a huge increase in missed spam comments over the last few days. It seems to affect a few select websites. I can’t figure out any commonalities between the affected websites. A few from this multisite, a few from that multisite. I have single WordPress installs and multisites on the same server, same IP address which remain unaffected.

Most of the times when I log into the website and manually do a ‘Check for Spam’ Akismet will properly move them into the spam section. Any ideas why it’s missing them in the first place? I’m running the WordPress 4.0, Akismet 3.0.2 and Jetpack 3.1.1 on all of my websites.

Ditto here. I’m getting about 100 (clearly) spam messages bypass Akismet daily on two of my blogs. This really picked up after I upgraded to WP 4.0, but this could just be coincidental. I tried blocking spam comments that didn’t already have a session cookie (which works against many bots attacking wp-login.php) but this didn’t work. So, unfortunately now we have to hunker down and disable comments and wait for the spam to decrease.

In the wp_commentmeta table these comments have been tagged by Akismet as “false”. When I POST these comments to Akismet via their REST API, I also receive a “false” result. So Akismet’s servers are to blame for this problem, rather than anything internal with the plugin or WP.

Here is the CURL request, minus my API key:
curl -X POST -H “Cache-Control:no-cache” –form “blog=https://www.boxcarpress.com” –form “comment_comment=hermes fake receipt hermes birkin bag auction ppidosm” –form “user_ip=10.0.1.185” –form “user_agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727 ; .NET CLR 4.0.30319)” –form “comment_author_url=https://dietpath.com/images/replica-hermes-bracelet-accessories–5192.html” –form “permalink=https://www.boxcarpress.com/blog/boxcar-talk-with-laura-bentley/” –form “comment_author=replica hermes bracelet accessories” –form “blog_lang=en_US” –form “blog_charset=UTF-8” https://{key}.rest.akismet.com/1.1/comment-check

Funny, I’ve been sending this cURL request throughout the day, and suddenly the one I just sent returned “true”, indicating Akismet figured out that it _is_ spam. Not knowing how the Akismet backend works, and without input from Akismet, I don’t know exactly _why_ this happened…but it does give me hope.

For anyone still having trouble, drop us a line with your API key and the sites having trouble here: https://akismet.com/contact/