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Originally Posted by Dave

I don't really make use of a proxy trapper, I do it all manually.

I do it like this:
1. Whenver I see a suspicious registration, I enter the IP here: https://ipinfo.io/ and check to which ISP it belongs.
2. I Google the ISP and lookup the main site and see what kind of services they provide.
3. If they provide hosting services, not for home connections, I usually block the whole thing using a custom script I wrote to generate all IP ranges that have to be blocked.
4. After I generated all the IP ranges that have to be blocked, I apply it to a tool called Peerblock (for Windows). Of course it can be applied to iptables on Linux as well.

This will not work if you use something such as Cloudflare though.

Aye - we check the IP addresses and every time they come up legit - why I commented about the guy liking his coffee! Some email addresses seem odd and yet he obviously is able to route PMs etc through to his 'correct' address.

Originally Posted by Paul M

I just ban them again when we come across them, no message, no fuss.

They eventually get bored of constant re-regeristing, its a lot of work for them, a single click for me.

We keep doing that - no sign of boredom yet. We even shut the Forum down for a month around Christmas after banning his latest account, and yet he already had another one which he'd been using 'normally' for about 150 posts before he reverted to trouble ....