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Prevent Private Message Spam:
BuddyPress allows messaging other users. BuddyPress spambots sign-in and begin to message all users. This plugin places a 24 hour restriction before one message can be sent.Add invisible Registration Options
Use of a “Registration Honeypot” via All In One WP Security & Firewall. This feature allows you to add a special hidden “honeypot” field on the WordPress registration page. This will only be visible to robots and not humans. Since robots usually fill in every input field from a registration form, they will also submit a value for the special hidden honeypot field.Use Askimet Spam Protection
It’s built into WordPress and free and it works wonders. It automatically eliminates spam from appearing. Yes it can be fooled from time to time but I run a few open commenting sites and one of them has had over 250,000 spam attempts blocked by Askimet.Ban Hammer
Add known domain names that a offenders of hosting spammers using BanHammer. ex: anything ending in .ru or containing the word SEO, pill, best etc. Also adding IP addresses and IP address ranges from these offenders to a permanent blacklist. -
181 spambot accounts were prevented and Askimet has blocked 77 topics/replies from spammers that made it through. The others are unknown but based on the 2 messaging spammers I’d say a bunch there too. Now the spam will be limited to actual humans which is far easier to monitor. And, if I get hit with some brute force thing or some social media storm I can just block all new activity until it passes.
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