r0bertwp

Same here @dsharma03

Installed a wee while back. Got flooded with spam. Foreign language stuff. Google translate detects it’s Russian with messages along the lines of what @tombruner had

Hi, this is Irina. I am sending you my intimate photos as I promised. [a tiny url]you

Only worse. Unrepeatable spam related to illegal x-rated content.

So I blocked .ru in Cloudflare.

Obviously, it doesn’t stop VPNs from getting through.

Installed WP Mail SMTP. Discovered (during the setup) that I only had SPF records set. Went and added the DMARC and DKIM records. The main thing that did was authenticated spoofed emails as being sent from my email address. So much for that.

It has slowed down the amount of spam from about 10 a day to a couple.

Weirdly, it’s only one form that gets plagued with spam. The home page. I have WP forms on four pages, but every piece of spam comes from the WPForm on the home page. The rest are fine.

Any ideas?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by r0bertwp.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by r0bertwp. Reason: correct "contact form" to "WPform"