{"id":484,"date":"2019-08-21T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=484"},"modified":"2019-08-22T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:34:40","slug":"what-is-it-that-attracts-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2019\/08\/21\/what-is-it-that-attracts-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is It That Attracts SPAMMERS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone receives unwanted email, commonly referred to as SPAM.  This site is no exception.   However, I find it interesting that one spammer, originating (supposedly) from IP address <a href=\"http:\/\/176.108.5.170\">176.108.5.17<\/a>0 seems to get through my site&#8217;s plug-in, only to arrive at my administrative panel, where I promptly tag and bag the miscreant, who never gets published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why is a single post of mine used as this person&#8217;s target, and why does my filtering software &#8211; my gatekeeper, so to speak &#8211; not capture him\/her\/it like it does 99.9% of the rest of the spam? I&#8217;ll probably never know.  But I do find it curious&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An update, as I knew I would:  this particular spammer isn&#8217;t too bright, and as a result, IP address 176.108.5.170 is now blacklisted.  I won&#8217;t even have to trash these messages, as the site will do it for me.  Ain&#8217;t technology wonderful?  &#x1f600;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone receives unwanted email, commonly referred to as SPAM. This site is no exception. However, I find it interesting that one spammer, originating (supposedly) from IP address 176.108.5.170 seems to get through my site&#8217;s plug-in, only to arrive at my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2019\/08\/21\/what-is-it-that-attracts-spammers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}