# Ik word momenteel overspoeld met spam, wat kan ik doen?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-currently-being-flooded-with-spam-what-can-i-do/381635
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [4 september 2025 om 20:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-currently-being-flooded-with-spam-what-can-i-do/381635 "2025-09-04T20:06:46Z")
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [4 september 2025 om 20:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-currently-being-flooded-with-spam-what-can-i-do/381635/4 "2025-09-04T20:49:21Z")

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They’re not really expensive.

And I’ve shared two tips in that topic that don’t need an LLM.

> [@Tips for Preventing Spam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tips-for-preventing-spam/264020/3):
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> One very useful regular expression is \d{3}-\d{4}|[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)\*\.[a-z]+ which blocks email addresses and phone numbers. Don’t forget to enable settings - posting - “watched words regular expressions”.

> [@Tips for Preventing Spam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tips-for-preventing-spam/264020/13):
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> We’ve seen a number of clients hit by large spam attacks lately, and what they all had in common is that they opened up one or more categories to everyone - create, bypassing all trust level restrictions. For seasoned Discourse admins it’s obvious that this is a bad idea, but for less experienced people it’s not. So it might be a good idea to state the (for us) obvious and add this to the start post of the topic.

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