Title: Strange forwarding Last modified: November 6, 2024 --- # Strange forwarding * Resolved [mahmacc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mahmacc/) * (@mahmacc) * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-forwarding/) * One of our email accounts is receiving forwarded spam email which apparently arrives via Akismet with a header such as * —–Original Message—– From: Jeffreyrop [](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-forwarding/yasen.krasen.13+77049@mail.ru?output_format=md) Sent: 03 November 2024 08:09 To: [tickets@festivalchorushackney.org.uk](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-forwarding/tickets@festivalchorushackney.org.uk?output_format=md) Subject: Akismet: Spam – Survey response Ofiefheufjwoidjwi hfjsfoiewhgifewhfjasifdj qwoifjwkawdkkwefuhfkwoapdfweh jfkewijfgrogr * Why would any such email get sent rather than intercepted by Akismet? * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fstrange-forwarding%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Plugin Contributor [Josh Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/procifer/) * (@procifer) * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-forwarding/#post-18118424) * Hi there, it appears that Akismet did mark the message as spam, but that message is added by the “Fast Secure Contact Form” plugin, which has sent the message despite being spam. I’m not entirely familiar with that plugin, but from looking through the code a bit, it appears there’s a setting in the plugin to ‘Tag as spam and send anyway’. Can you take a look in your plugin settings and see if you can switch that to ‘Block spam messages’? * Thread Starter [mahmacc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mahmacc/) * (@mahmacc) * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-forwarding/#post-18118960) * Thanks for that excellent bit of diagnosis. The plugin was installed by my predecessor but as far as I can see we have no actual contact forms in use. However, I have now amended the settings as you suggested. Many thanks. This thread can now be closed * Plugin Contributor [Stephane Daury (stephdau)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephdau/) * (@stephdau) * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-forwarding/#post-18119859) * Wonderful! Thanks for having confirmed my colleague’s conclusion. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Strange forwarding’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/akismet/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2818463) * [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/akismet/reviews/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Stephane Daury (stephdau)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephdau/) * Last activity: [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-forwarding/#post-18119859) * Status: resolved