Spam Registration

[JohnW]

Same problem here, about 10 spam registrations a day.

So the catcha tool isn't good enough.

There are some admin tools like blocking names and sets of IP addresses but they have had only slight success I feel, and the IP block did temporarily ban two members who are in France, so we need another tool.

One I thought would be useful for my site would be to block any registration that doesn't set English as the language. I think most of the spam regs don't select language so it's always Arabic on their profile.

Another tool would be a Question that has an answer you need to think about, like 'What is the colour of a banana?' Something like that.

We need someone in bizhat admin to post on this thread. Any chance of that?

John

[ladyinthemists]

I have the very same problem....daily spammers. It's easy enough to check them out by going to the Stop Forum Spam website and doing a query on their e-mail address and then delete them. But I'm wondering why we (or, at least me) are not able to see our registrant's IP numbers. Is there some add on mod that we need in order to see these IP numbers and, if so, how would I go about getting that mod and adding it to my forum site?

[Tankless]

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[ladyinthemists]

As a result of a lot of obviously very sick individuals who seem to think that this (originally very serious) thread is their playground to post some often exceedingly filthy spam posts (52 spam posts just since last night at 10:00pm eastern daylight time!!) I am closing this thread.