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1. gogreener
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   As of a few hours ago, I'm getting (hundreds) of email notifications that there's a comment waiting to be approved, deleted or marked as spam. But when I click the 'mark as spam' link, WordPress takes me to a page that says "Oops, no comment with this ID."

   Now some of the notifications are for comments that have already been approved, that were made months ago.

   I use the Akismet plugin, slightly modified to go through a proxy which my host insisted on.

   Is this a weird type of spam, or a glitch in the notifications? Is there anything I can do about it?

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   likely is trackback spam
   looks like you have been "discovered"
   drop in a couple of plugins and it will stop

   http://ocaoimh.ie/cookies-for-comments/

   http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/simple-trackback-validation/

3. gogreener
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ah, cool - thanks for that!

4. smacklemore
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm guessing mine is not trackback spam since it continues after installing both of the plugins. I'm getting emails like below 50-100 a day:

   New comment on your post # "Name-of-post-here"
   Author : (IP: , )
   E-mail :
   URL :
   Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=
   Comment:

   There is no actual data in the emails. Does anyone know how to make this stop?

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