Yes, I've had a very hard time testing this in the past. And even when it works, 99.9% of the reports you get are completely innocent (e.g. families, the local library, etc.).

But just a couple weeks ago it caught an old timer that logged in as a new user and went straight to our Introductions forum and introduced himself as new. Friendly members welcomed him with open arms, as staff had to sit back and wonder what the heck to do. We don't actually forbid having multiple accounts, only using them to buttress your own arguments. And revealing to him what we knew would nullify future detections from him, as he would figure out a way around it.

It's not hard to defeat. It's just one to detect the obvious for ya.

anyone else who tried on 4.2 ??

I pretty much had the same problem with an old member. When I caught him he said 'I am his sister, login from the same pc' ! What can you do ? :confused:

MPDev.. I used this mod for ages on my forum suddenly it didn't work anymore (damn sure my own fault xD). So I decided to create my own version for it. I've used bits of your code, it's kinda hard not to do so as you're using the functionality provided by vBulletin, but I've also made some changes, which includes everything being phrased and optional encryption for the cookie string (your method can be abused).

So I was wondering if I could post my vB4 compatible version? :)
Proper credits will of course be given and a link to this thread will also be included.

As the mod is not supported now, I'm sure the community would be grateful of it... what would be fab is if the detector could check against previous accounts and if the duplicate account was already banned, it would put the account into moderation.

I'm getting spammers or trolls trying to sign up for duplicate accounts and if someone's not online to ban them, then they can run riot until they're caught...

You need to enable email verification.

Nice :y:

Works well on vB 4.2.0

Is there any similar product for VB4?

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