Fighting Fire with Fire: Standing on ALERT for more SPAM

For your perusal, ladies and gentlemen.

Behold the SPAM.

Recall that earlier, I’d shared tips on how to detect SPAM.

Bad speling, poor gramur, same IP address, some kind of store, and often asking for something – such as other social media locations.

Here, in this instance, notice the Time Stamp, the

SPAM Alert! Akismet up to bat… swings, misses. Striiiike one!

Most often, Akismet – a spam filtering service by Automattic – catches spam.

Sometimes, it does not.

Here’s one instance in which it did not.