THEN! I realized that everything was coming in from Cloudflare so I looked and YESSSSS!!!! Cloudflare has the option (in the Threat Control area) to BAN IP RANGES!! I also have that nice IP plugin installed which lets me see where spams are coming from. So no more spams from 117.26.0.0/16 for example.
Every happy ending has a story and that was it.
Regards,
Steve