I’m using TanTan noodles which is a plugin that you can set to hit on specific words that get used in spam - it stops spam before it even gets to Akismet. The commentor has to click on a button to make the comment go through when it contains one of the words you have set it to catch. Because these commentors are not human, the comments never get left. ;)
If not for that I would be seeing a lot more spam - in general TanTan is now catching 100+ spams every single day. I had to do a little bit of work to the plugin so it would hit on URL’s as well, because I found a lot of the drug spam would spell the word wrong in the comment but the word was *always* spelt right in the url. Since I did that, it has cut the amount of spam I see with my own eyes right back, but it is still there, TanTan is just catching it before I can see it.

There has been a big upward trend just lately, during this last week. It’s probably a good time to look at spam catching options.

I never saw anything like this amount of spam on blogger. It makes me wonder why Wordpress blogs are targeted?

Cheers,
Snoskred

I think that figure is pretty close to the mark and yes, I’ve noticed an increase too. Imagine what it would be like without Akismet - eeek!

@ Snoskred - interesting point about the level of WP spam. I’ve heard, but I’m not sure, that the spammers are “watching” some of the WP ping update services and when an updated blog is flagged they send in spam comments.

@ Meg - yes, praise be to Akismet :)