Help. I'm getting *spammed* from my smugmug site

richturk

This is new to me...I've gotten a few of these the past two days. Comments being e-mailed to me that are spam/ads

How can these be prevented??TX NOte. I left the spam comments on there to illustrate.
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rt

Lucky you! A fan commented on a photo in your Atlantic Puffins on Machias Seal Island, Maine gallery.

jordans for sale (pjordans@gmail.com) @ http://www.air-randy.us/ wrote:
Only they who fulfill their duties in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions.

Click this link to view the comment (you may have to click on "Show Details"):
http://www.richturkphotos.com/BIRDS/Atlantic-Puffin-Photos-Maine/8531056_ns8S4#570851184_d5orZ-A-LB

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hoffmcs

I don't think you can really prevent it but you can add comment moderation http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-sharing-comments. I believe SM is working on improving comments in the future.

Lindy

Hi Rich,

Hoffmcs is right. The spammers have either hired a bunch of folks to enter those by hand, or they've figured out a way to slip past the captcha requirements. (I sure hope that's not the case!)

What you can do is delete those comments, or you can set your comments up for approval, so that they don't appear, unless you okay them. Be sure you check out the help link he provided.

At this point in time, the only other thing you can do is report them to their domain registrar as a spammer.

We do apologize, and try hard to protect you from that type of thing, but they persistent!

Lindy
SmugMug Support Hero

You can always catch us here, too: http://www.smugmug.com/help/emailreal

antistar

I have the same problem, they all come from the email adress 1d231@gmail.com

I don't know if it's related, but I noticed a strange visit in my google analytics results last week. The visitor is from Beijing and he reached my site using the keywords:

inurl:"photos" intext:"to foil spammers, enter this code" intext:"d"
and
inurl:"photos" intext:"to foil spammers, enter this code" intext:"e"

When I search these on google, I only find Smugmug websites. I started receiving spam after that.

JerryBarton

I just had one of these 'hand entered' spam comments from China this morning. It doesn't appear malicious, just a pest. "Suging.fang88" and similar are on Spam lists. I'll delete it later today.

Made by: handbags (suqing.fang88@gmail.com) | About: photo | On: Aug 02, 2011 9:16am CEST | Action: delete
WOW.....Good article. I like it!

Jerry Barton, Vienna www.jerrybarton.eu

Andy

Guys, it's super easy to turn on comment moderation in your control panel, stats tab. Then you can just delete those comments before they are posted.

anwmn1

Andy wrote: »

Guys, it's super easy to turn on comment moderation in your control panel, stats tab. Then you can just delete those comments before they are posted.

What about spam emails through your contact page?

I am getting blown up lately. :soapbox

Example:
Name:hkscrozbdyE-Mail:xmaxjetmvr@tuztbi.comNumber:cqxtgibcMessage:awtltbbspoofxnbo, nvqxffcsru

Andy

anwmn1 wrote: »

What about spam emails through your contact page?

I am getting blown up lately. :soapbox

Example:
Name:hkscrozbdyE-Mail:xmaxjetmvr@tuztbi.comNumber:cqxtgibcMessage:awtltbbspoofxnbo, nvqxffcsru

Nothing here
http://aaronnewman.smugmug.com/gallery/8621840_HkVp3
to stop a 'bot.
There are ways to post info that are obfuscated - post in the customizing forum for help

anwmn1

Andy wrote: »

Nothing here
http://aaronnewman.smugmug.com/gallery/8621840_HkVp3
to stop a 'bot.
There are ways to post info that are obfuscated - post in the customizing forum for help

Thanks Andy.