I can’t believe how quickly time seems to pass. It is remarkable when you think about those days, like Christmas morning as a kid, when days didn’t come fast enough. How does that work? Totally random question, no need to really ponder it.
But this is why I am writing:
What kind of Spam do you get in your WordPress comments?
I ask because mine is really inappropriate, to the point of disgusting sometimes, and I was wondering if that was just my site or if everyone got the same Spam. Maybe I clicked on something once and now it stuck? Where do they all come from and honestly, what is the point of them? Call me naive but I can’t wrap my head around it.
Stine Writing 
I get 20-50 PER DAY! It’s sooooo annoying!
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Me too and that is only on WP!
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Same! It’s double that on my email account!
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I’m so frustrated right now! I just listed something on Facebook Marketplace and there are all scammers! Asking for me to text them, asking me to give my location. It isn’t worth the hassle to try and sell anything anymore there. I used to all the time but I am taking it off and am aggravated because I went through this a few months ago and just forgot about it. I learned this time.
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Ugh, that sucks! I don’t blame you for being frustrated. I’ve been pretty fortunate in that arena but it’s probably because it’s a small, rural town.
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I get some spam. Akismet catches most of it. I find it annoying when a blogger leaves their link in my comments asking me to follow their blog.
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Yes, I feel like that is just random phishing.
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For me, I received all my messages from WP on my email. It allows me to mark such messages as phishing and to report it. That usually ends spam from that source. A filter doesn’t seem to work so well because they always change the sender name/address.
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I know! Where do they come up with all these names? I feel bad for someone if their name is used without them knowing. For a while they were weird names, now they are sounding more common.
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Yes, you have to be very careful about what you open up. The hackers can get into your friend’s contacts and use it to contact you and they can spoof your friends name and unless you hover over the name you won’t know it’s a hacker. Sometimes you have to hover over the sender name as a double check and you will see the address of the real person who sent it to you. No fun! Be vigilant.
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I don’t even look at my spam. I just assume WP is doing it’s job
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I didn’t either until I looked one day and found a bunch of bloggers I enjoyed conversing within my Spam folder! Now it only happens once in a while.
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Same
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I use Akismet through Jetpack. I rarely get spam.
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I think I do too but my Spam folder fills quickly. At least they go there!
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true
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I get a lot of RV sales promotions or something to do with RVs. Don’t know why; I’ve never been interested in getting an RV, haha. Mine go straight to the spam folder, so I don’t see it unless I go there to empty it.
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I get the RV ones too! And the porn…Both are things I don’t ever look into!
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I received some years ago but now WP catches it all. I had to put in every word in the spam filter I didn’t want to see as a comment on the black list. That includes benign words in the spammers email address.
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Most all go to the Spam folder but it fills up so quickly it is ridiculous!
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Hmm might ask WP about it
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