[wp-hackers] Re: Spam against reCaptcha

[Ben Maurer]

Hi,

I'm a developer on reCAPTCHA. Please see our FAQ entry on this:

HELP, I'm still seeing comment spam

There are two common issues that make reCAPTCHA appear to be broken,
but are actually not problems.

    * Moderation emails: reCAPTCHA marks comments as spam, so if you
get moderation emails when spam comments are sent, you will get
moderation emails for all spam comments with reCAPTCHA. We highly
recommend turning off moderation emails with reCAPTCHA.
    * Trackbacks and Pingbacks: reCAPTCHA can't do anything about
pingbacks and trackbacks. You can disable pingbacks and trackbacks in
Options | Discussion | Allow link notifications from other Weblogs
(pingbacks and trackbacks).

We're working on a way to make these issues easier to understand for
users, as it's a cause for confusion. We'd appreciate suggestions from
wp-hackers on this matter.

On Nov 5, 10:07 am, Cyberheb <cyb3r... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask about this problem, but
> I got information about this lists after googling aroundreCaptchaon wp. I
> found 2 spam ask me to be approved on one of wp site which I managed:
>
> Author : admin (IP: 221.217.203.6 , 221.217.203.6)
>
> > E-mail : ad... at sohu.com
> > URL    :
> > Whois  :http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=221.217.203.6
> > Comment:
> > For a quick summary see our hotels in Beijing,.....
>
> I've implementedreCaptchafor comment on the blog but this spam still could
> access the comment page, is there any known bot around which can breakreCaptcha? or this just breakreCaptchaimplementation on wp? or I have some
> misconfiguration to fully protect the blog against the bot?
>
> ~ h3b
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