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1. DonaldFoley
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Hello,

   I am using wordpress 1.5.2 and I have it set so you have to register before posting comments. Today I recieved this in the mail:

   A new comment on the post #11 "Present and Future gigs!" is waiting for your approval

   Author : Blog ringtones (IP: 200.66.191.1 , sesiones.prodigy.net.mx)
   E-mail :
   URI : http://telringtones.com
   Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=200.66.191.1
   Comment:
   I dont know, what it is.

   There is no Blog ringtones user in my database, how could this person post a commment. I am glad that it is set so the first post of any user must be approved by me, but I am unsure how this could happen. Have I been hacked? Usually, first I get a user registration email, then after, I get an email to approve comments from the user.

   Any info would be greatly appreciated.

   Kind Regards,
   Don "a little nervous" Foley
   http://www.donaldcfoley.com/wordpress/

2. Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
   Moderator
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   It's probably a pingback/trackback, not a comment.

3. Veshka
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   I got the same thing today, on a password protected post! It's got to be something other than a pingback/trackback.

4. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   But they're being held for approval, right? So they aren't appearing unless you approve them....

5. DonaldFoley
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   After looking at my email history I did noticed that TrackBack and Comment approval emails from WP look the same. They both say New comment on your post #n. However usually trackbacks have the [...] automatically put in, so it confused me. So this is a new kind of spam? False Trackbacks, I checked there site, they did not post my post on thier site.

   Oh well, I feel better anyway.

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