Am I the only one who’s getting an influx of spam from Outlook e-mail accounts? About half of them are getting through the spam filter, and if I had to estimate, there have been sixty or seventy in the last couple of days. I don’t want to turn off the option to let people who aren’t WordPress users comment on my posts, but this is getting ridiculous. And they’ve started swearing–and threatening to touch me, too! Here’s the last message I sent to spam:
F*ckin’ amazing issues here. I am very happy to peer your article. Thanks so much and i am looking ahead to touch you. Will you kindly drop me a mail?
That was on one of my Second Seat posts. What the bloody hell?
lindaghill.com 
January 23, 2018 at 8:54 am
I’m getting them too on two of my blogs.
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January 27, 2018 at 4:08 am
I don’t seem to be getting the spam, but I am beginning to wonder if I have been hacked. Just now I commented on another blog and decided to open the avatar to see what it says. It says I am a “Blogger” blogger–not a WordPress blogger! How can that be?
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January 27, 2018 at 9:14 pm
That’s strange. Keep us posted. Now I wanna check mine.
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January 31, 2018 at 9:22 am
Matt, I finally figured out what was going on with my blog. I had the settings for automatic pay via credit card, but for some readon WP did not opt to use that. They installed a Jetpack, and changed the plan for an upgrade, but I had to agree. Go figure! Someone could have sent me a warning or even a general article to tell me I was part of a new upgrade and needed to say yes to their change.
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January 31, 2018 at 9:44 am
Yeah, that’s crap. I’m glad you got it figured out though.
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January 31, 2018 at 11:45 am
Maybe we should all be watching out for this! What a pain WP can be. 🙄
Thanks for sharing your experience, Beth.
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January 23, 2018 at 4:02 am
I have a slightly different issue. When I tried to comment on a blog post yesterday, I was forced to sign in first. Here I am on my own blog, reading posts from other blogs and I have to sign in?!
To make a long story short, here I am today–finally after a full day’s work trying to recover my own blog, making a comment again as though nothing happened. However…
The avatars on both my blogs have changed (not my doing) and I cannot log into my second blog today. All this suddenly with no warning….
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January 23, 2018 at 12:50 am
Thank goodness I am not the only one. Mine all come in twos. Two emails from two addresses but on the same subject. A lot of them telling me how to recharge old batteries. More alarming is the constant advise on how to deal with toe fungus. I mean ….. how do they know this stuff about me?????
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January 22, 2018 at 7:17 pm
I’m getting them, too. Sometimes it’s scares me.
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January 22, 2018 at 6:29 pm
I got 2 spam comments the past few days, and about 10 outlook email follows in the past week or so.
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January 22, 2018 at 1:42 pm
I haven’t had much SPAM recently, but I have noticed that my comments are often ending up in others’ SPAM folders and regular commenters on my blog are ending up in mine!
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January 22, 2018 at 7:13 am
Had the same problem and had to remove them one by one . It was annoying though .
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January 22, 2018 at 5:31 am
I’ve marked them all as spam and that seems to help the spam filters. However, I’ve seen a few bloggers allow these comments onto their posts without realising that the comment is spam. In all cases, the comments had bad grammar and did not appear under the notifications bell symbol on my blog. These spammers are getting cleverer and cleverer, so we’re going to have to keep our eyes peeled. If I’m not sure about any comment (and there is no image or photo on the Gravatar) then I always mark it as spam and then clear out my WordPress spam folder.
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January 22, 2018 at 2:10 am
I’ve had a ton of spam too lately! Was wonderfing about it! I keep sending the comments to the spam and then deleting them, its a lot of work though! ❤
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January 22, 2018 at 1:38 am
Yikes!!!! : 0 That’s awful! Hope the spam stops!!!!!
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January 22, 2018 at 1:36 am
I’ve had an influx recently too!
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January 22, 2018 at 1:11 am
Having the same problem. Wrote my own post about it earlier today.
https://fivedotoh.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/has-my-blog-been-hacked-by-the-russians/
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January 22, 2018 at 12:55 am
I am facing the same issue here. Majority of these spams are making their way through the filter, primarily due to the fact that they have followed my blog through their fake outlook ids.
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January 21, 2018 at 11:20 pm
Here’s what I’m confused about. That little bell at the top of a WP page? I never see the spammers there. I see likes and follows that never show up there in my email. I don’t open them as the ids seem long and I just delete from there. If there was something to moderate it says so in the preview and I open them. I will start marking the emails as spam.
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January 21, 2018 at 10:39 pm
I had them for a while, like tons a day. They were on posts of mine that were old – like years old – so I deleted the posts and that calmed the spam down.
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January 21, 2018 at 9:23 pm
There is so much grammatically wrong with that! I hope that wasn’t written by a real human. If it was, that person should walk in front of the bus. On second thought, that’s rude of me to say and I’m realizing that if a person actually responds to that, then there’s a larger problem there.
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January 21, 2018 at 6:36 pm
It appears that they are utilizing the FOLLOW BLOG VIA EMAIL button? I had like 20 funky outlook accounts sign up since Monday. Even though I removed them, they were still able to do their doody work. I toggled the “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail” setting and so far so good. We’ll see what materializes with time…
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January 21, 2018 at 6:07 pm
Not the only one. I have been too.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:56 pm
And a few others are also getting them. It’s a new tactic, and akismet hasn’t yet adjusted – but if everyone marks them as spam, it might help it deal with them faster.
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January 21, 2018 at 6:02 pm
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Thanks, Cage.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:44 pm
Yeah. Had a bunch follow me and got a whole bunch of spam comments. I think WP are aware because the followers are not on my account anymore.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:52 pm
Oooh, maybe that’s why I lost ten followers in one day. Interesting. Unfortunately, the comments persist. I’ve had twelve since I published this post, but they all went to spam directly.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:32 pm
i’ve had a bunch of them over the last 2 days
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January 21, 2018 at 5:36 pm
Crazy. I wonder if it would be worth complaining to WordPress. 😛
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January 21, 2018 at 5:23 pm
I received several spam comments that snuck through today.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:26 pm
I wonder what happened all of a sudden.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:55 pm
I got spam today by a guy who was commenting on your blog. Apparently, I was following comments on one of your posts. Maybe one where I filled in for you???
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January 21, 2018 at 6:02 pm
Might have been. I’m not a good person to associate with, apparently. 😛 hehe
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January 21, 2018 at 6:03 pm
Ha ha – I’ll take a little spam to keep in contact with you 🙂
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January 21, 2018 at 5:18 pm
I had maybe half a dozen or so yesterday, I think, and have 3 more today. And they all seem to be commenting, with rather poor grammar, on the same blog post.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:20 pm
Mine are all over the place, about four or five messages over and over on twenty or so blog posts. Are any of yours being redirected to spam automatically?
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January 21, 2018 at 5:22 pm
Yeah. I think I had a couple yesterday that asked me to approve the comment, but other than that they were all going straight into spam.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:25 pm
That’s good.
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January 21, 2018 at 6:11 pm
Just got another one that I was asked to moderate/approve, on the same blog post as that the others. This is what they tend to say: “You really make it seem really easy with your presentation but I to find this matter to be really something that I think I would by no means understand. It kind of feels too complicated and very vast for me. I am having a look ahead in your next publish, I will try to get the grasp of it!”
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January 21, 2018 at 8:24 pm
Those with such poor grammar are usually from foreign countries. I once used Outlook as an alternate email but their spam filters are so bad I finally closed the account.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:03 pm
Yuck! I’m getting links asking me to join weight loss forums but that’s awful! Obviously English is not their first language.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:10 pm
That’s usually the first indication that it’s a bot. I haven’t seen a well-written message yet.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:02 pm
I have had one or two but not abusive
….. Yet! 🌹💜
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January 21, 2018 at 5:10 pm
Hope they don’t get that way for you!
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January 21, 2018 at 5:33 pm
Me too keep spamming them ….🌹
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January 21, 2018 at 4:55 pm
I am having the same issues but the number of the outlook mail accounts are very less and no messages have cropped yet.Any suggestions on what to do?
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January 21, 2018 at 5:00 pm
No idea. As long as they’re not trying to sell something, the spam filter doesn’t pick them up. They’re just an annoyance. If you keep sending them to spam, the filter picks up on repeated phrases, which is why I think half of them do go automatically to spam.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:02 pm
You don’t recommend deleting them cause none of mine got caught in spam.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:11 pm
If you hit the spam button, it deletes them automatically.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:28 pm
Thanks
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January 21, 2018 at 4:54 pm
Im getting loads !!
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January 21, 2018 at 4:56 pm
Not just me then.
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January 21, 2018 at 4:59 pm
No and all outlook…
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January 21, 2018 at 5:00 pm
So these messages are going to e-mail addresses too?
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January 21, 2018 at 5:04 pm
oh not sure i.turned my email.notifications off. .if it continues ill.just turn off non WordPress comments…not ideal but its getting out of control..
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January 21, 2018 at 5:09 pm
I agree. I can’t turn off my comments – I’m running a month-long prompt.
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January 21, 2018 at 4:50 pm
Cyranny said she had those issues.
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January 21, 2018 at 4:56 pm
Ugh.
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January 21, 2018 at 5:04 pm
I think she came up with a solution. Maybe check her out?
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January 21, 2018 at 5:09 pm
Do you have a link?
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January 21, 2018 at 6:11 pm
Https ://cyranny.wordpress.com
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January 21, 2018 at 6:17 pm
Her blog post entitled “I knew it”….talks about it.
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