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10-30-2007, 11:33 PM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 752 Location: England   
| Spam Members I've had quite a few spam members join my forum today even though I have No Spam! installed. The members are using free email accounts like Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail to register. How do you handle members like this?  | ||||
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10-31-2007, 12:21 AM
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Title: Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA  | Odd, No Spam! has basically eliminated all spammers here at AF Have you checked IPs of these members? What kind of posts are they making? Anything else in their profile that stays the same (email address)?
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10-31-2007, 01:13 AM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 585 Location: New Delhi, India | I am seeing that most of the spammers these days aren't really bots, they are actual people who are doing the spamming. | ||||
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10-31-2007, 01:44 AM
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Title: Just keeping it real
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,856 Location: Kent, WA 
| Like Ryan said, since I have installed it it has virtually stopped all spam on my sites. 1 or 2 may make it in a every couple of months, but nothing I can't handle. | ||||
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10-31-2007, 08:23 AM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 752 Location: England
| I've checked the IPs and they are all different and different email addresses. They just come on the forum and post links to other sites. Usually the spammers are from India, Nigeria etc but yesterday they were all from the UK. | ||||
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10-31-2007, 01:24 PM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,357 Location: United Kingdom 
| They are probably paid to do this, alot of traffic websites that you pay for traffic to go to your site just pay people to do it these days. And i've never seen any spam on AF 
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10-31-2007, 02:11 PM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,357 Location: United Kingdom
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10-31-2007, 03:28 PM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 700 Location: www.NewOniTunes.com 
| I don't recall the name of the hack, but I run one that captures posts into moderation for anyone dropping links or certain keywords if the user has fewer than X posts. Between the two mods I am able to contain spam before it hits the threads because most spammers are only going to post a couple times anyway.
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