Title: Smiley Spam ??
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Smiley Spam ??

 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smiley-spam/)
 * I seem to be getting comment spam that consists just of smileys.
    This is typical:
   New comment on your post #191 “WordPress Styles” Author : sdfsdf (IP: 203.213.80.170,
   203-213-80-170-syd-ts12-2600.tpgi.com.au) E-mail : [sdfsdf@sdfsdf.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smiley-spam/sdfsdf@sdfsdf.com?output_format=md)
   URI : Whois : [http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=203.213.80.170](http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=203.213.80.170)
   Comment: :wink::cry::eek::?::!::???::grin::wink::cry::eek::lol::mad::sad::neutral::
   mrgreen: IP blocking the way to go on this ?

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 *  [MaxT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxt/)
 * (@maxt)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smiley-spam/#post-49994)
 * [http://www.maxt.dk/archives/2004/05/10/banning-unwanted-ips/](http://www.maxt.dk/archives/2004/05/10/banning-unwanted-ips/)
 *  Thread Starter [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smiley-spam/#post-50009)
 * Cheers 🙂
    I’ll tinker with that later !

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/smiley-spam/#post-50009)
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