Anti Spam Wordpress Plugin

Some folk might remember that Telos was struggling earlier in the year with various attacks by spam orders - basically some scrotes using the Telos site to verify card/PayPal information by firing orders at our payments hub to do the verification. A total pain and I tried everything I could to try and block the orders but to no avail. Nothing seemed to work, no plugin stopped them!

It went away for a bit but then the other week came back with a vengeance! I was searching the WordPress Plugins for anything that might work and came across Anti-Spam by CleanTalk, a spam prevention and firewall plugin, and it offered a free 7 day trial ... so I reasoned nothing to lose.

And it worked! Superbly it started to block all those spam orders ... as well as a multitude of bot activity and rogue comments and goodness knows what else!

After running it for a few days I could see that it was really doing the job! So we subscribed ... and it was not expensive at all! For a small publisher it's a real godsend ...

Here's a few screenshots showing the dashboard, how it displays what it's doing, and a sample shot of some of the spam it has prevented from getting to us ... Simply brilliant and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Available from https://cleantalk.org/

DASHBOARD

SUMMARY DISPLAY

DETAIL DISPLAY OF SPAM IT HAS BLOCKED