Sudden huge increase in spam

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  dwoog · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 2:40 am

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  Recently, the spam that has gotten through the Akismet filter has increased slowly. Today there was a dramatic increase — 86 spam comments, all with the same URL (http://fratfratfrat.com). There’s also some random other junk that used to get caught; now it’s showing up in my email as comments. Has anyone else noticed this?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 2:48 am

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  Mark it as spam and move on please. The ebb and flow of spammers is a continual cycle and when we mark these as spam Akismet learns.

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