Beware “Your mailbox is almost full” Spam (or Phishing) attempts
Have you received an email saying that your mailbox is almost full, and offering a link to click to reduce the size automatically?
This is an example of spam or phishing.
Have you received an email saying that your mailbox is almost full, and offering a link to click to reduce the size automatically?
This is an example of spam or phishing.
Comment spam can be a real headache for new blog owners, and after a period of time this can grow to several hundred comments a day.
This is no benefit to your website, and indeed can be detrimental to it, and it can take a lot of your time to remove it.
So, what do you do… and why do people bother spamming your site anyway?
Spam is a problem for all website owners. Captcha works to some extent, but might also be preventing many real visitors from contacting you. Here’s a solution that might be better for your conversion rate whilst still cutting out most of your spam…
If spam is spoiling your blog, check out Akismet, a great WordPress plugin that traps spam comments. It lets you trap, review and even delete these comments automatically.