[Hidden-tech] Spam source?

[Shel Horowitz]

I'm not a technical expert on this at all, but I have noticed that I get
avery high percentage of spam a two of my addresses, both of which are tied
to domains I have in WP and one of which is what I use for Twitter. I get
plenty of spam to the address I use for FB, too (my main account), but as a
percentage, it's much lower.

The worst, however, was an old address I had to discontinue after ratios
like 400 spams to every legitimate email. That was not tied to WP but it
was old enough to be harvested when spammers started scraping websites for
mailtos.

Good luck!



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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Annamarie Pluhar <
annamarie at pluharconsulting.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> Hello HT,
>
> All of a sudden - like last 4 days I'm getting an enormous amount of
> spam on one of my email accounts. I basically use this account for two
> things: Contact from my WP site http://www.sharinghousing.com  and
> Facebook.  I do have a test site up with the contact form, but that's
> supposed to be hidden using a plug in "Hide My Site" I have just
> upgraded the test site to 4.0.
>
> I suspect the source of the spam is the WP site?  Could it be Facebook?
> Any insights or knowledge and actions to take from this community would
> be welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Annamarie Pluhar
>
> Pluhar Consulting
> http://www.pluharconsulting.com
> 802.451.1941
> 802.579.5975 (cell)
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