No, not cigarettes. Even when I was a fairly heavy smoker, I couldn’t manage that many.
Spam Comments.
Yes, they are all caught by WordPress, and placed into my Spam Folder. But now they have reached a total of almost 300 a day so far this week, it is impossible to go through them to find any genuine comments in amongst all that rubbish.
Today, I scanned them (288) quickly, just in case. Every single one of them was sent by the same ‘person’. (Undoubtedly not a real person.)
TuyetKaddy
talenteimnetz.dex
vepll6o3h@gmail.com
91.211.88.127
I searched that IP address, and this is who it comes back to.
Current IP Range: 91.211.98.0 – 91.211.98.255
IP Range Location: Ireland
IP Owner: Tsg Interactive Services Limited
Owner Full IP Range:
91.211.96.0 – 91.211.99.255
Owner Address: King Edward Bay Complex, King Edward Road, Onchan, IOM, Im3 1Dz, Isle of Man, British Isles, Isle of Man
Owner Country: Ireland
Owner Phone: +441624632666
All Owner IP Ranges: 91.211.96.0 – 91.211.99.255
All Owner CIDR: 91.211.96.0/22
All Owner IP Reverse DNS (Host)s: 98-23.colo.sta.blacknight.ie
ASN: AS48536
Whois Record Created: 16 Apr 2011
Someone in Ireland, with a company registered on The Isle Of Man. There is even a phone number. (Which I didn’t ring, in case that was also a scam.) It is worth knowing that the .dex domain name is encrypted, and .dex domains are associated with ‘Ransomware’ demands.
So whatever you do, make sure to never click on any links sent by this company. Not ever!
Each comment is so long, consisting of 20-odd lines of nonsense, followed by 16 links to products or services, it took me a full four minutes ten seconds just to delete them by clicking on ‘Empty Spam’. (Yes, I was fed up enough to time it.)
Surely there must be some way that WordPress can block this pest? If I can find out so easily who is responsible, then a company like WordPress must be able to put a stop to them.
Don’t you agree?
(Just after posting this, I checked the Spam Folder. 10 more!)
I am in a special relationship with Google (R). Lol (own server) I am only getting junkmails twice. Then they filtered out them. It seems to be a big network of cooperations, sending these junkmails. xx Michael
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Yes, the Spammers are well organised and relentless, Michael.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Reblogged this on OPENED HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Did my 300 comments about the Battle of Thermopylae also go to spam?
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I can only presume they did, King Leonidas.
Best wishes, Pete.
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What’s the point of these spam messages? What do the polluters get out of it? Just annoy other people?
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I can only presume that some people click on the links, Irene. They obviously don’t know not to do that.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks for the head’s up. Warmest regards, Theo
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I managed to eliminate a lot of it using the suggestion from Themis.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Check
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Mines the same Pete some days it is 500 and as you find it seems to be the same person or persons but I haven’t checked further as you have..I did contact WP and they just said they caught them in spam and not to worry as it wouldn’t affect my blog but if you leave them it takes time to delete them…its beginning to annoy me and if anyone gets caught spam genuinely I’m not to know that…x
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See my reply to Themis.. I managed to get most of it straight into Trash.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, I agree. That is crazy!
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See the comment from Themis below, Geoff. Adding the IP address to my forbidden words moved all that stuff into Trash. I still had some Spam, but not from him.
Best wishes, Pete.
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funny, i just wrote a post about this that will publish in the am. great minds…
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See the comment from Themis, Beth. Her suggestion worked, and all those comments went into the Trash Folder today.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks
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Have you tried entering the spammer’s IP address(es) — or their common part, which seems to be “91.211.9” for most of them, plus “91.211.88.127” as the IP address you looked up — as prohibited terms in your Jetpack settings?
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I will try adding that to my chosen banned keywords.
Thanks, Themis.
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Hope it works!
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It did! It got rid of all this morning’s comments (144) into the Trash Folder. I still had 16 in the Spam Folder but they were from someone else. Thanks! 🙂
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Oh, I‘m so glad!!
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I will keep adding those IP addresses to my banned words list. 🙂
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Good plan. I remember it used to be the only thing that really helped on my very first website, too. It‘s a nuisance to have to look them up — I wish WP had a tool like the admin service I used for that other website had, where you just pasted the spammers‘ URLs into a dedicated „block IP“ form and the admin program did all the rest — but it‘s still good to know that using them as prohibited keywords works as well.
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Incredible. I must remember to check my spam folder.
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That company is plaguing me at the moment, Peggy. I’m fed up with them.
Best wishes, Pete.
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My gmail is dreadful for spam too Pete
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Funnily enough, I get almost none at all on Gmail. Perhaps because my main personal account is on Yahoo. Even there, I rarely get more than 2 each day.
Cheers, Pete .
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You have a popular blog!
Have you checked in the settings (My Sites – Jetpack – Akismet Anti-spam) I have mine checked to silently discard the worst spam so I never see it. I also sometimes add keywords to the Discussion settings, but that can be problematic if there are other genuine words within (such as in and with in that last word) or you could ask WP for help as you have a personal account and should get instant support.
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I do have some keywords added but none seem to work, and I am not far off contacting WP on my Premium Account and asking them to intervene with this.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Doesn’t just clicking the empty spam button delete every item no matter how many pages of them there are?
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Yes it does. But when there are almost 300, it takes nearly 5 minutes to delete them all, and I may well be deleting genuine comments spammed in error.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Wow! Someone loves you, Pete! Thanks for the .dex tip
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It is becoming tiresome now, Shaily. I might even stop bothering to delete them, until they get to 10,000!
Best wishes, Pete.
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😁
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I’ve been getting hundreds a day too, but I didn’t go into it to find the sender – I just cleared the Spam. But thanks for telling us about .dex, that’s good to know!
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Always worth knowing about who to really avoid, GP. Those pests often have a darker side.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Today I had 76 and they were all from weebly.com
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If you add that website to your forbidden words and phrases, they will be sent into the Trash Folder instead, GP. I was able to do that with the IP address numbers of the one that has been bombarding me.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks, Pete.
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that is insane!
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I can only agree with that, Wilma.
Best wishes, Pete.
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This would irritate me too, Pete. Who has time for such nonsense?
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I could just ignore the Spam Folder, and never delete anything. Maybe I should try that, Robbie? 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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If you can manage it, Pete. I never remember to check spam.
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That is a lot of spam, for sure. I’ve had had periods when I seemed to get a lot, and all from the same address, but never quite that many, but I won’t talk too loudly, because one never knows. I suspect Pit is right, and blocking a single address wouldn’t make a difference, although it is worth asking, just in case. I hope they give you a break. And thanks for the warning, Pete!
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It is good to know about encrypted sites, as they are always going to be suspicious.
Best wishes, Pete.
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What a waste of time! Cyber creeps.
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I have always wondered if anyone ever actually clicks on their links, Carolyn. If not, it is a monumental waste of time and money.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That’s horrible…I get a slew of them as well and you are right – it takes time to “delete all”!
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I know it is in the Spam Folder, but that doesn’t stop it being annoying.
Thanks, John.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Because for me when that spam folder gets so many it takes forever to delete, and I can’t do anything until it finishes!
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I had the same problem with a guy from India trying to push Cancer cures. WordPress did not respond on how they could stop them. I contacted the address and told the pest to leave me alone, but in much stronger language. He eventually stopped, now I get your regular annoying spam.
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Are you getting this ‘TuyetKaddy’ stuff too? It is very irritating, but I thought it was just me. In some ways, it might be reassuring to know that it is more widespread.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yep Pete, I got it too, plus some that were truly absurd. WP needs to fix if at all possible. But then I’m the guy that will talk to spam callers and telemarketers, and ask for their personal home phone and address so I can come pay them a visit during dinner hour.
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I’m sorry to hear this Pete. I know my comments have shown up in your spam file on occasion for only God knows why. This place is about good and evil. Our existence is about interactions that bring us F2F with this reality. Simple as that. The online world is an digital extension of it all. Push back Pete, make a statement of persistent action against it or evil will steal your quiet enjoyment, bringing anger and frustration and finally chaos into your life.
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That more or less sums it up, Chris.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You are a spam magnet! I just checked my 3 blogs, only 1 spam and that was from a propper blogger, just a new one. So glad I made the changes after the spanish bot attacks!
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I thought I had it sorted with keywords, etc. But this company seem to manage to get through to the spam folder every day. No idea why they have picked on me.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Because you have a lot of followers I should think.
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It could be that. Maybe they target people with over a certain amount of followers, even though at least half of of those followers are other companies trying to sell me stuff! What a merry-go-round. 🙂
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Pete, that is a crazy amount of spam and yikes, 288 from the same address. Yes, one would think WordPress could do more to stop them from getting this far – or do they just want to show how good their program is at catching them all? Good investigation work and thanks for the heads up about dex and ‘ransomware’. I’m paranoid about scams, spam mail etc it’s getting to the stage I end up igrnoring important emails or calls from reputable companies!
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Thanks, Annika. I am not usually too paranoid about emails and domains, as I rarely click on anything unless I know the sender. But this avalanche of Spam from the same so-called ‘company’ is annoying me. I just don’t have the time or the inclination to wade through checking 300+ spam comments a day, in the hope of retrieving a few genuine ones put there by mistake.
(10 more from the same idiot since I started writing this reply!)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Poor you … it is frustrating and time-wasting.
I’m ‘fighting’ WordPress about unathorised copy of my posts without credit. Not reblogs but just photos and text copied and used by others. A long battle! big sigh
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I have never knowingly been aware of any unathorised use of my posts or photos. So far.
That is even more annoying than Spam. Good luck with your battle, Annika.
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That seems to happen a lot with my blogs! Most annoying. When you visit the sites it is simply full of other bloggers’ material. I have no idea what they want to gain from doing that.
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It’s an absolute nonsense, Pete, I agree. But as to WP/Akismet being able to block them, I’m doubtful. Surely it must be possible to block one certain IP-address, but I think they would just re-appear with a slightly different one, just as it happesn with those da** robocall here in the US. You can block them, but they just change a single digit in their number and appear again on your phone.
Best,
Pit
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Thanks, Pit. Yes, that sender has a lot of registered IP addresses, so you are probably correct.
It is annoying though. 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ye gods! I hardly ever check my spam folder but I don’t think I get anything like that many
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This has been relentless for some time now, and increasing day by day. I have really had enough of it, but I am not about to try to contact anyone from Ireland who is hiding on the IOM behind .dex domains.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Lol. I guess that’s the price you pay for having a successful blog. Annoying though
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