I have been just looking at some of SallyinNorfolk‘s spam statistics. SpamKarma has achieved the following in the past 6months:-
- Total Spam Caught: 47857 (average karma: -12846.66)
- Total Comments Approved: 626 (average karma: 472.75)
- Total Comments Moderated: 56
She is now the target of scrapers who are ripping her content.In the two days she has had WP-ban in place. The following addresses have been caught:-
74.50.109.2 Has tried 10 times.
66.225.211.142 Once
65.98.35.234 Once
72.52.219.182 Once
68.228.217.69 Once
Interestingly I don’t get hit as much , Sally thinks that spammers are targeting subjects such as food and exercise.
Thank goodness for all the good folks writing wordpress plugins.
I hope that you include this in your talks. It needs to be in your much needed “Guide to Blogging” which should be on your blog!
thanks for this info… a certain 74.50.109.2 left a comment…i thought my blog was featured but lo and behold…it was a blog spam…tsk..
Yep – 74.50.109.2 is relentless – I have a plugin on WordPress that is blacklisting dozens of attempts in the last hour.
Jeff
I found your site after googling “74.50.109.2″ The person at this address has visited my site 114 times. Now I find out that he/she is just a spammer/scraper. Great! What’s this plugin you speak of? I think I will just deny this ip to my website altogether.
ok, I’m back already. After some research, here is some more to watch out for:
according to google searches – 64.158.138.84 is a data mining company to block.