Title: Spam already!
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Spam already!

 *  [tonysab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonysab/)
 * (@tonysab)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-already/)
 * Hi the site I have built has just gone live in the last 2-3 weeks and already
   we are getting spam on the contact us page – this is using the Fast Secure Contact
   Form with a Captcha and have Akismet turned on to mark as spam but I can’t believe
   that a new site is already being targetted – how do they identify new WP sites?

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 *  [Dave Naylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpranger/)
 * (@wpranger)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-already/#post-4893316)
 * The spammers and other such attackers may not know you’re running a WordPress
   site. They may have found you by means of an automated trawling exercise over
   a block of IP addresses and yours was one of them. I see many attacks across 
   all my sites and it’s a daily task to stay one step ahead of them.
 * Yes, I’m the kind of guy that reads log files, a lot!
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-already/#post-4893323)
 * I have a test blog on a domain which has nothing else on it.
    It has never made
   a post, I have never linked to it, I have never clicked a link from it. It took
   a few weeks but the spammers found it and now visit regularly.
 * And they will target new sites and hope their ‘vanity spam’ will be approved 
   by the new blogger:
 * [http://blog.akismet.com/2007/11/27/it-really-is-spam/](http://blog.akismet.com/2007/11/27/it-really-is-spam/)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-already/#post-4893323)
 * Status: not resolved

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