Title: Spam Error
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Spam Error

 *  [Mattman0444](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattman0444/)
 * (@mattman0444)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-error/)
 * I seem to have an issue that I can’t figure regarding spam filtering.
 * Some (not all) legit messages are getting flagged as spam and put into my Flamingo
   Spam folder and never delivered.
    I only use a honeypot to deflect spam and that
   works great.
 * First I thought somehow my honeypot was triggering, but after turning that off
   it still recognizes this message as spam. Also after testing, if the honeypot
   triggers, I get the yellow error message, not the orange Spam one.
 * I disabled all other plugins on my site including the honeypot and Akismet but
   it is still getting recognized as spam and I get the orange spam error.
 * Is there some sort of low-level anti-spam built in to CF7 that I can disable?
   I assume its CF7 because I get the CF7 orange spam error.
 * I just don’t know where or what or why this gets flagged as spam.
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-error/#post-7254145)
 * FAQ > [I get an error message with an orange border even though I don’t use Akismet.](http://contactform7.com/faq/i-get-an-error-message-with-an-orange-border-even-though-i-dont-use-akismet/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-error/#post-7254145)
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