[wp-forums] Spam from ShenZhen

[esmi at quirm dot net]

on 29/09/2012 10:05 Kees Meijer said the following:
> Recently I've noticed that quite a lot of spammers have their
> location set to "ShenZhen". Today I did a little experiment and
> counted the spammers with that location. There were 275 spam posts in
> the in the queue when I started. About 10 posts turned out not to be
> spam. In total there were 109 unique spammers and 87 of them were
> from ShenZhen. There seems to be a lot more spam in recent weeks, and
> most are with that location. Did anyone else notice? It might be
> worth checking if it could be blocked at a higher level.

We've also been getting a lot of this spam on the quirm.net forums. I 
did some rough IP checking about 2 weeks ago but couldn't even pin it 
down to a given block. My guess is that this is some kind of spam farm.

Mel
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