Receiving spam emails after posting a question

Question

I posted a question here a few days ago and have since received two spam emails claiming my question had been answered (it has not), only to be spammed with advertisements and bogus links.

How do I get it to stop and how do I prevent it from happening to visitors to my site that post a question?

Here is the contents of the last email I received:

Your question on Question2Answer Q&A has been answered by asfghrtjrt:

very good web: ---( http://fur.ly/6czb )---

The website wholesale for many kinds of fashion shoes, like the nike, jordan, prada, also including the jeans, shirts, bags, hat and the decorations.

All the products are free shipping, and the the price is competitive, and also can accept the paypal payment., After the payment, can ship within short time.

We will give you a discount

WE ACCEPT PYAPAL PAYMENT

YOU MUST NOT MISS IT!!!

---( http://fur.ly/6czb )---

thank you!!!

Believe you will love it.

We have good reputation, fashion products, come here quickly
Opportunity knocks but once

Your question was:

Any plans for better Wordpress integration

If you like this answer, you may select it as the best:

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/10878/any-plans-for-better-wordpress-integration?show=10910#a10910

Thank you,

Question2Answer Q&A

Comments

probably we should remove the links in this question, since it seems to accomplish some of what the spammer was trying... makes one wonder if the poster is actually a spammer...

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Yeah I always thought it was odd that Experts could edit answers but not questions...

Answer 1

The email you received contained an answer that was posted on this site by a spammer. After it was posted I hid it, and this is why you can't now see it on this site. But the notification email had already gone out. Unfortunately there is no 100% secure system to counter spam, despite all the strategies that Q2A employs. So if you want to be sure never to receive an email notification of a spammy response to your question, edit the question and uncheck the notification box. Thanks.

Comments

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, isn't one work around for spam like this, to moderate and approve all questions, answers, and comments before posting live? Which would mean this is more of a non-issue with the next release.

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Indeed, though I don't think I'll switch on the moderation for the site :)

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I've had a few similar emails. Maybe the answer is to have a basic spam filter triggered by certain words/phrases, which put the posts in a moderation queue. Then emails get sent if/when it's approved.

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The new filter modules in 1.5 will allow a plugin to selectively queue posts for moderation based on their content, or any other criterion.

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I see there is a new approval mechanism in place here for comments :) is it just putting all comments in mod queue?

Heh.  Guess so, I just had to approve my own comment :)

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Sorry - accidentally uploaded some code I was using for testing, which queued all comments for moderation. Should be fixed now.

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well, it was a nice preview, anyway... an akismet plugin is not so far away from that...