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Comment Spam, new twist

Posted on 2004-09-212015-08-14 by Mark Boszko
This post was published more than a few years ago (on 2004-09-21) and may contain inaccurate technical information, outmoded thoughts, or cringe takes. Proceed at your own risk.

Just in the past few days, I've been seeing a new form of comment spam coming through, and making it past my spam filters. Instead of using the words that they know I will probably have on my block list, I instead get a string of HTML codes like:

internetcasinos

…which ends up giving me "internet casinos", which my filter would normally detect.

It seem the simplest solution is just to put the string &# into my filter list, which should catch these letter substitutions --- but once I add that, I get all sorts of errors from the WordPress code that runs the spam filter, because it doesn't like the #. Anyone else have any suggestions?

Update:

With the help of WPBlacklist, I seem to have stemmed the tide. Thanks, Farook.org, and the rest of the WP community!

1 thought on “Comment Spam, new twist”

  1. TreeFrog says:
    2006-02-22 at 2:51 am

    Awesome blog you have. I enjoyed reading it this evening.
    Peace
    TreeFrog

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