Up until recently, I had not had much of an issue with spam mail, but lately that all changed. This morning, my spam folder EXPLODED! I finally had to contact WordPress to see what was happening. I literally received 350+ spam emails this morning alone, with regards to a post I wrote quite awhile ago. At first, I was trying to answer them all, even though I thought some were a little odd. After all, I don’t want to prevent readers and followers from commenting, and I truly want to hear from as many people as I can, but this was getting way out of hand. I had to do something. WordPress discovered they were all SPAM.
One by one, we “opened them up” to see what was inside, and they were all deleted. Hopefully WordPress will do a better job of preventing that from happening again in the future. One thing I was advised to do was to turn off comments from anything older than 28 days.
I don’t know if anyone else has been having this problem, but I thought you should all know. I will continue to keep checking my spam folder, because I know nothing is fool proof, and some of the items that find their way to spam are actually things I may be interested in. But the best way for anyone to get a hold of me regarding my blog is go to ajeanneinthekitchen.com and leave a message there. I do eventually get back to everyone.
Stay safe and stay well everyone. ‘Til next time.
A Jeanne in the Kitchen 
You must’ve opened a dirty Hormel link 😁
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Oh thank goodness that is what you were talking about…I thought you were cooking spam….no no no no no
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That’s so annoying!! One day I had some random person comment on every single one of my comments begging for money. I had to delete every single one! It took forever! I wish they would have went to my spam folder.
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I know, it’s a real pain. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
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I rarely open my wp admin page and whenever I do, I see that there were like 30+ spam messages
I wish WordPress becomes better @ filtering your spams…
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I do too.
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Funny you should say that. I, too, received 350 messages two days ago.
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I wonder what’s going on. It seems a bit sketchy, don’t you think?
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Yes. A sudden jump to 350 views seemed a bit odd to me, given my day-to-day record.
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That’s what I thought too.
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I haven’t been spammed but ever since I begun offering subscriptions I’ve been receiving a lot of domains from Russia, Africa, various Caribbean Islands and Far East countries. Plus many changing passwords. I now have more subscribers than followers and I’m not really convinced this is because of my posts. WordPress says there’s nothing to worry about but it’s a bit unnerving. Has anyone else ever experienced this?
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Yes, it is all a bit unnerving. I have to say. But I too checked with WordPress, and they did not seem to be concerned about it. I guess it is all part of the learning process.
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