Help me stop mobile phone spammers and scammers!

[giorgioarmani]

We are getting dozens of spam ads to do with electronics/mobile phone scams everyday!!!

Anybody know of an effective solution?

We have anti spam question.
We have banned IP ranges.

Any suggestions?

[James Birkett]

Do you have a Captcha?
Moderate the first (5) post(s) of every new member, then promote them to another usergroup if they don't contain spam.

[giorgioarmani]

Do you have a Captcha?
Moderate the first (5) post(s) of every new member, then promote them to another usergroup if they don't contain spam.

Moderating the first 5 posts would be even more work... We get a lot of new members every day. Is there no word block mod?

[Lynne]

Do a search on these forums for threads with "spam" in the title. There are so many out there with so many mods/options given to get rid of spam.

[silurius]

Have you analyzed the pattern and discussed it with the web host? They might be able to add a subnet to a blacklist or something.

[giorgioarmani]

Thanks Lynne, I've searched around but unable to identify which one would suit. My problems is 99% focused on PHONE/ELECTRONIC scammers....

@silirius: Thanks, I've blocked whole subnets via HTACCESS already but still not enough...