Some other board owners were saying that changing from image verification to a question/answer has helped immensely too.

Hi thanks for the suggestions! My site has been hit by a ton of spammers today too - at least 40 so far!

Most bots select the GMT-12 timezone, you can block their registrations with this...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=141554

It is working with 3.7.3 for me, Ive had 2 bots in 1 1/2 years

also, and this is just a suggestion, Im not sure how right I am about this

turn off email verification, the bot software waits for the verification email, verifies, then posts spam, if the email never comes they may never post, even if they manage to register.

Many forums are reporting the same (including my little bitty forum). Turning on ReCaptcha has stopped it dead. No more registrations or spam!

going to give this ago reCaptcha as i was using question/answer fingers crossed this stops

I had a huge amount of spammers today more than normal and I added a mod that asks a question from here. So I am using both the question and the image verification. I think I had like 20-25 register in matter of an hour.

few guys that have forums other than VB are also reporting this.

I turned off registrations for a bit. need to look at re-captcha.

Question and answer with topical questions and answers works great (it's also minimum wage moron proof). Or then do I what I did on my own forum, pre moderate the first five posts all new users manually, that will certainly kill spam dead.

I've found that ultimately, the best way to deal with spammers, after taking all the other necessary precautions, is to just be more relentless then they are. They're persistant, but after a while, they give up if all their effort ends up not being worth the effort.

how can you add more questions/answers to the human verification?