Banning ips is not really working as most of the "proffesional" spammers use spyware (that is installed in pcs of people who don't know nothing) and do their job, or they just use dunamic ips. I am saying this because when I got attacked, I get many comments from different ips in the same time.

For solution I think a modified AJAX post/register screen would stop them, but I don't really have time to code this now...

Anyway we need a solution, as the problem is getting bigger every day.

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Pfft. I get quite a few (in fact all my banned members were banned because of advertising) but what I tend to do is just ban ranges and require email validation.

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luckily, my site doesn't get spammers. But I'm admin on a jazz site and 9.99/10 new users is a spammer. I've set it up so that I must moderate all new users and this pretty much works. With the recent increase in spammers, I finally starting started saying the hell with the benefit of the doubt and I'm banning first, asking questions later. I also ban the email root (@theiremail.com) and the IP. But this 3-8 a day is killing me.

Yeah I got two spammers the other day one joined and spammed both the forum 9 times and the chat box, and another just used the chat box as an insult place to insult my forum. The second guy said this forum was a waste of time I told him it was useless yet the guy won't quit I need to find his ip address and ban it.


I wish the chat box had an acp so I could ban the ips but they have to join first I hate people who spam! But, I just ip ban spammers with accounts hopefully I won't get anymore spammers any time soon.

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Yeah Anonimo is really getting bad for spammers lately, over the past 3 days i went through all the members accounts and deleted over 300 accounts and now if anyone joins for spamming, their post gets deleted and so does the account. Ive also made it email vertifcation.

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You'll always get spammers - but lets face it you either let it annoy you or you just ignore it - Policing it would be like trying to preserve an ice cube in the Sahara - It used to annoy me but now I just laugh

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We have regular spammers / scammers. We now have email validation on sign up which helps and will put in some code that will not allow the @ symbol in first conatct emails. Also some code that will enable us from admin to change all the content of their emails to something along the lines of content removed due to breech of TOU - in effect undoing all their hours of copy and paste with a couple of clicks of the mouse, so hopefully that will put them off. Plus delete their accounts of course. And we also warn our members about fraud etc.

About a year ago I noticed the spam bots were coming out of the wood work.

I use every possible device to thwart this incredibly annoying marketing practice. Image verification on a vBulletin is indispensable. But you simply can't get around the fact that the direct, hands on approach, is the only effective method of screening out automated registrations, manual spammers, and other undesirables. When you have multiple selection menus included on your registration page: Country flag, etc. And the registrant always chooses the first option? That is a tell tale sign that the registration was automated. Asking for some personal information is always a great way of identifying spam bots. As of yet, they can't handle unexpected inquiries.

I have seen some forums absolutely inundated by automated registrations. The Administrators allowed the spambots to register in order to inflate their member counts. But then dooms day hit, and their boards were barraged by an interminable assault of spam posts. It was really ugly. A friend of mine actually had to close down his forum in order to clean up all the spam threads which had taken over his board after he had neglected his duties for a few weeks.

And don't try and run a wordpress blog without the 'Akismet' anti-spam plugin!

How many times have all of you seen HoOdiaESsentials, 57894578945789, spermshack.com or some such listed as registered members on a forum? I think even a marginally perceptive Administrator or Mod should be able to recognise that those are most likely not legitimate members...lol

Are their two dirtier words in an Administrator's vocabulary than: Lurker and Spammer?!...lol


Best regards,

B.

We were getting a lot too, but now we personally have to approve each member. If the username looks fishy and after an IP check they don't look right, we ban them right away.

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B, I'm not sure whether or not you're still having problems with spammers...but if you are, you should definitely check out this mod: NoSpam! - an alternative to CAPTCHA images - vBulletin.org Forum

It has been a miracle-maker in stopping spam here and at many other forums. NoSpam or bust!

AF used to average 2-3 spammers per day...but since installing that mod, we probably get 2-3 per month.

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