How to stop forum spam?
 

Hi,

On my site, visionscripts.com, weird people began registering lately just to post nonsense posts that are not even necessarily spam. Just a bunch of text that makes no sense whatsoever. Occasionally, though, there would be a couple of links to other sites.

I made it so that these posts are sent into moderation queue. Is there anything else I could and/or should do about it?

Thanks.

I ran into the same issue and i had to ban the address's from my server.......they kept trying to reregister under different name's with the same ip addy......

I have noticed this mod too, which is a great idea.... https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hreadid=134780

You mean like this?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=134800

LOL

I have noticed these spammer posts too.I had a couple that were nonsense about having pc problems. No links or brand names were mentioned. Do you think they are using these posts to search out easy to spam forums? Insert some gibberish posts then the keywords will be searched for by bots and replies given to the posts?
Say a bot posts saying they have probs with spyware etc..A few days later another bot will reply with links to their software..

Can't see this thread

It was one of those spamming buy nokia crap posts, and has since been deleted.

If you just ban partial IPs 196. and 83.229. you'll cut nearly all of the mobile phone spam. Almost all of it is from Nigeria, and almost all of it from those IP groups.

this may help ..
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=211647

image verify cuts out the bots, but there are apparently LOTS of people in India, Nigeria, russia and china who are attempting to make a living from spamming, because we still get hit very hard. Membership approval does help, but I manage 30 forums and it would be a daunting task to moderate all new signups across all 30 of em.

image verify cuts out the bots... not the majority of them now. The other day I saw a post on a webmaster forum that had a link to a bot that could bypass image verification, ip blocks, and almost every other type of security imaginable. The best you can do is install what is necessary and ban what gets through.

That forum wouldn't be adminzone, would it? I'm a member there, although I rarely visit. I can't see how it can get round image verify unless a human is registering for it, or it has image capture software. I worked for a software co. that made such software and it was about $70k. Hard to believe a spammer would make that kind of investment.

This is what I'm using,
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131568

We get a few new spammers every day and not a single one of their posts has seen the light of day. :)

BRILLIANT! I'm trying that for sure!

It's a nice hack, but a pre-defined list of keywords would make it even nicer. :)

Simple solution would be not to have a forum :)

end of day just make sure your mods etc are on track and know to delete the posts as soon as they spot em.

Ping their IP. Alot. :]

Its quite fun, and word gets around that if you spam x forum, they'll own you. :/