Number Spam

Oops, forgot the screenshots:

https://share.getcloudapp.com/GGuo1OO2

https://share.getcloudapp.com/mXuALkko

Hi @fooemery

Can you please report this spam to us via our form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQlKVZZYsF1qkKz7U78B2wy_6s6I7aNSdQc-DGpjeqWx70-A/viewform?c=0&w=1

I need to check why those comments do not get marked as spam.

The settings are correct but this just works if the server is from Russia and the comment text is not recognized as English. I need a comment to reproduce the failure here.

Thanks in advance!

All the best
Torsten

Hi @fooemery

do you already send the spam comments?

All the best
Torsten

I really would like to help, but without any more information about the spam I can’t help.

Closing this due to inactivity.

Torsten, What do you mean? Did you never receive the form I filled out?
What other information do you need? I have sent a lot of information over, so did you not receive it??
Please let me know as it’s getting worse

Katie

I realize now that one of my replies was sent via email to a noreply inbox so it makes sense you didn’t get that, but I did fill out your form. I will fill it out again so let me know if you don’t get that. Thank you.

Hi @fooemery

Did you never receive the form I filled out?

Yes, I got one submission from you from 21st of july: With *your* name, *your* email address and this text
“I keep getting spam on my site – it’s just a series of numbers, coming from many different email addresses. Problem is it’s not marked as spam – it shows up as “pending”. I’d like figure out a way to have it marked as spam and deleted. Or a way to block the addresses it’s coming from – mainly coming from yandex.ru. THanks!”
After this there is just one other submission but most of the fields are just filled with “not sure”. Not easy to help you finding a common pattern which we could detect if you submit so less information.

I asked you to submit those spam comments (plural!) which are not getting caught by Antispam Bee. You need to enter the content from those emails, so I can check for common patterns. Besides the host everything else should be just copy & paste from the comment in WP itself.

If it easier for you, just go to the spam comments and make a screenshot (or more screenshots) and paste those links here, like the other ones above. Then I can look at them and hopefully can help you …

We can solve this! ??

All the best
Torsten

Thanks, Torsten!

It took a few days, but I finally got some more number spam this mornng.
Here’s a screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQurr6Kv

Best regards,
Katie

Hi, Torsten:

A lot more number spam today: https://share.getcloudapp.com/xQuLALQQ
and one more: https://share.getcloudapp.com/yAublbzP

Thanks,
Katie

Hi @fooemery

thanks for the screenshot! Never saw this spam before.

Unfortunately the two last links are showing completely unrelated screenshots ??

If all comments are like the two in the first screenshot we could easily build a custom pattern to solve this.

Everything is spam with 6 numbers only *and* yandex.ru or yandex.com in the email field:

$patterns[] = array(
		'body'   => '^[1-9]{6}$',
		'email' => '@yandex\.(ru|com)',
	);

See: https://gist.github.com/Zodiac1978/19c5b045515ee62b09702361369ea38f

You just need to download it, then unzip it and then put the file in your plugin directory. Activate it and ready!

If you need more help please don’t hesitate to ask.

Does anyone having the same type of spam, please report to us. Then we could maybe add this to the plugin itself with the next release.

All the best
Torsten

Hi, Torsten:

I uploaded it, thank you!

But in the meantime, I’m getting more of it from other domains.

Here are the newest ones: https://share.getcloudapp.com/o0u8Jvx9

Thank you!

Best regards,
Katie