I hate spam mails
I am sure most of us do. I get one or two now and then and when I do I also get this message from WordPress:
Akismet has protected your site from 54,615 spam comments already.
There are two comments in your spam queue right now.
Oh yes, that’s the total numbers of spam mails I got all these years. Amazing numbers, spammers are busy on the keyboard. Haha!
Sometimes, I receive them from the same person with a paragraph of a story that I don’t even understand. Sometimes it is written in a foreign language I don’t know. Oh, they sell something too online but I just ignore everything and put them in my trash folder or the option “delete spam”. Most spammers would tell you how you could earn from your blog. Monetize it so they say. Do you believe them? Maybe you could earn a few pesos for it.
When I was just starting this blog, I met a Filipino nurse based in the USA who was also a graduate of the university where I came from. Believe me, he would sweet-talk you that you could earn thousands of dollars from your blog (yes, dollars). He created a site for all UST alumni and we were hoodwinked to join. The UST administration approved it and even our former teachers and college professors joined too. I even attended one of his seminars in UST worth P5,000.00, a bit expensive for me of course but I was interested. Nothing came out of it, I don’t want to monetize blogging. Later on, after about a year I guess, that site demobilized. I learned later that he just formed his master list out of all the UST graduates and students who joined. My goodness, I unfriended him on FB faster than you could say go.
Was there a time when one or two of your blog posts was published in another site without you knowing? It happened to me once, they copied my entire post and just changed some words. Wonder how I found it? I checked my blog through copyscape. I called the attention of WordPress but I didn’t hear from them. And then more followed. Someone suggested that I spam them back. What I did was to make a post about them with their site as the title of my blog. It finally stopped.
A few months ago, I learned how to block a site. There is an option here and I blocked at least two commenters who were not even WordPress bloggers.
I am grateful for Akismet, they are taking care of spam mails.
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I appreciate Askimet too. There were days when I got almost a thousand spams and they were all caught. I have no idea if other blogs are copying my posts. That would be kind of annoying. Blocking them is a nice option. 🙂
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True Diana, Akismet is a helpful tool for us bloggers. As for those sites that just copy your content, may they realize that what they are doing is wrong. Actually, the site that copied my post is not a blog site.
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I’ve had a huge amount of similar spammers too Arlene. And I’ve seen a few of my posts on other sites, it bothers me but mostly I ignore it though I should probably block them. Yes, a good thing for Akismet.
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Really those sites could not even make their own content, how sad. Thanks Miriam!
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So true.
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🙂
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Spammers will always be trying to find a way past blockers, as greed is their driving force, in most cases. One of the downsides of being able to communicate electronically is the amount of people trying to exploit us.
Best wishes, Pete.
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True, good thing WordPress takes care of them. I just don’t understand sometimes why they have to do it. It doesn’t make any sense to me specially those who just email parts of a paragraph.
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How do you block commenters? I don’t know how to use that feature. I would like to use it occasionally.
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Now that you asked me, I have again to visit Settings. There is a block featured there. I will go back to one of my posts. I blogged about it some months ago.
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So glad Akismet is picking up spam mails. I trash some of these too.
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I empty my spam folder every time I get one. Thanks Amy 🙂
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First time to know about this
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thanks Nahla!
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I always block and list as spam anyone who does not have another blog and if they do and look suspicious I check out the blog and if it doesn’t include to know them and minimal posts I block and list as spam. It is sad when people abuse the internet and scam people – they can use their talents to make this world a better place and instead choose to be criminals with their schemes hurting innocent people.
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There are lots of those Patty., the price we pay for being in a public forum. Internet I think is here to stay with us. We must just be careful with what we share.
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Scammers are everywhere these days. We even get spam type phone calls on our landline and sometimes on the cellphone as well, despite being on the “Do not call list”. I’ve not encountered too many spammers on my blog fortunately but will check out the blocking feature in case I ever need it. One thing I do before approving a new commenter is to check out if their blog is real. Many times it seems to be just a fake, or ‘empty’ blog. I sure would have better things to do than being annoying to others, but that’s just me. 😂
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Just like you I encounter those empty blogs too. Comments are moderated here in my blog, it needs approval. As for those spammers on cellphone, I get them too occasionally, Sometimes I just ignore them, sometimes I do send a message.
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I do moderate new commenters as well. It’s simply a different world now compared to when I was a kid.
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So true, the internet is a hodgepodge of everything.
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