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Hmmm... A little suspicious?
10-19-2006, 09:30 AM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 920 Location: Alberta Canada   
| Hmmm... A little suspicious?   WTF?This is not photoshopped. On the 15th, 100 something people regsitered, all with similar regular type names. ie 'first_last1234' Nobody noticed, until someone said 'Wait, where't we at 220, not 320? I'm a little concerned, none of these accounts have posted, and I don't know what they are, or where they came from. I've never seen something like this  | ||||
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10-19-2006, 09:33 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,623 Location: Holmfirth, England 
| Hells Bells! Looks like you might haave been massed spammedd or something
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10-19-2006, 09:53 AM
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 Title: Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Tennessee 
| Does IPB not have a CAPTCHA or strong Image Verification process? If so and it's not enabled, I'd enable it or make that a priority feature request. These days, so many spammers are finding so many ways to mass register. | ||||
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10-19-2006, 10:00 AM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 920 Location: Alberta Canada
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I havn't got a single post, spam or otherwise from these accounts, so I'm not to worried about it at this time. My staff and I will definitly be on our toes for the next while though | |||||
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10-19-2006, 10:12 AM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,913 Location: Australia
| What are their email accounts? should be able to tell where they are from. I would highly recommend image verifcation or number verification. | ||||
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10-19-2006, 10:29 AM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 920 Location: Alberta Canada
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 There is a script I can install, I've seen it before. It's just a matter of tracking it down, and installing it then.The email verification through the IF system is a nightmare at best. Emails are always in the junk, if they ever make it. And sometimes the verification link won't even do anything. Rather then deal with that much hassel, I just turned that off | |||||
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10-28-2006, 07:11 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 61 | Quote:
if you get itpromote members delete them. cc. | |||||
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10-28-2006, 09:24 PM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 652 | WOW. You're going to have to do some IP banning. However, don't delete the accounts. Sometimes members look at forums based on how many members they have. | ||||
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10-31-2006, 08:21 PM
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| Title: Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Tennessee
| IP banning may or may not work as most spam-bots work through proxies. If you ban too much of the IP range, you'll be banning potential members as well. | ||||
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