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techtir · #**673** 10-20-2009, 09:03 PM

We only launched on 10th Oct
Spammers building up to 5 a day.. Load of porn posted this morning and 7 new possible spammers.

I started using geo ip to check IPs and found http://www.stopforumspam.com/

Which led me back here

Installed no problem on VB 3.8.4 patch1

Working fine (tested with a good email and a bad one from www.stopforumspam.com ) and when I checked the log it had blocked a really spammer too.

I turned off checking user names. On 18 out of 20 checked manually there was email match. 2 had similar kinds of email and had spammed us. 14 matched on user name.

Great Job.

At the current stage what is best thing to to next to report the scammer/spammers?

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