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dmknights
07-02-2009, 06:19 PM
Im having a problem with this & hope someone can help me.

Im getting quite a few people registering that are obviously spammers or spam bots

They are putting a fake or non-existent email address & when my forum sends out the activation email, it returns as bounced & its causing a server problem

Can anyone advise me how to prevent this?

Thanks

deadlySniper
07-02-2009, 06:23 PM
Use E-mail vertification.

They have to verify the creation of their account by email, so if its fake, they can't.

dmknights
07-02-2009, 06:31 PM
They are putting a fake or non-existent email address & when my forum sends out the activation email, it returns as bounced & its causing a server problem


Did you read any of that?

TNCclubman
07-02-2009, 07:00 PM
use a custom question on signup. stops it dead.

dmknights
07-02-2009, 07:15 PM
How would i do that?