Title: BLOCKING NOT WORKING…
Last modified: June 11, 2019

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# BLOCKING NOT WORKING…

 *  Resolved [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lipctech/)
 * (@lipctech)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working-2/)
 * From my stats, I see that my website is being hit and flooded with spam bots 
   and the link is:
 * s3.amazonaws.com/mapwatch/scrape/2019-06-02/google_scout…and other numbers and
   letters following this.
 * I went into blocking in Wordfence and used custom pattern like this:
 * *s3.amazonaws.com as the referrer
    *s3.amazonaws.com as the host *amazonaws.com
   as the referrer *amazonaws.com as the host amazonaws.com as the host
 * and I thought this would block any links starting with the above, but I keep 
   seeing links like that every five minutes and wordfence is not stopping it.
 * Why is wordfence not working and not blocking that?
 * Thank you!!!

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 *  [wfdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfdave/)
 * (@wfdave)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working-2/#post-11628056)
 * Hi [@lipctech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lipctech/),
 * Can you take a screenshot of what your live traffic looks like? (Expand one of
   the rows to see more details)
 * Something like this is what I want to see: [https://i.imgur.com/G8p2uq8.png](https://i.imgur.com/G8p2uq8.png)
 * Dave
 *  Thread Starter [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lipctech/)
 * (@lipctech)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working-2/#post-11628186)
 * Sure, thank you!!!
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/AjEb79a)
 * 3 screenshots one from awstats, one from wordfence live traffic and one from 
   my analytics stats.
 * The bot from china, that is an ip I alread blocked permanently and gets 503.
 * Thank you, appreciate it.
 *  Thread Starter [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lipctech/)
 * (@lipctech)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working-2/#post-11628194)
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/xQuGzZP)
 * and
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/D6AYOKN)
 *  Thread Starter [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lipctech/)
 * (@lipctech)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working-2/#post-11636010)
 * Any news please?
 * Thank you!
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working-2/#post-11835386)
 * I apologize for the late reply. I did some digging into this and it looks like
   this is a service (possibly belonging to amazon?) that scrapes sites looking 
   for price comparisons.
    See this thread for reference: [https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-scraping-our-website/400500/11](https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-scraping-our-website/400500/11)
 * I haven’t found a way to block that exactly, though the thread above does say
   that it respects robots.txt, so you might try creating that file and adding the
   user agent you see in live traffic into it. What you are doing is block amazonaws
   which is the hosting service/cloud provider which may or may not work.
 * I reached out to MAPWatch but have not heard back from them as to how to properly
   get them to stop hitting your site. [This is the link to their facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/MAPWatch-108192869895895/)
   where you can try contacting them. I also found [their contact information on the site](https://www.mapwatch.net/contact).
 * The screenshot showing the IP blocked in China doesn’t seem to be part of the
   issue. That seems to be a malicious attempt to login using XML-RPC that was blocked
   by the Wordfence Security Network. When an IP tries to get into a Wordfence protected
   site too many times it makes the list and is blocked on all sites that have enabled
   that option.
 * I hope this helps.
 * Tim
 *  Thread Starter [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lipctech/)
 * (@lipctech)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working-2/#post-11835552)
 * Thank you very much! Appreciate it.

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