Spam List: Block 261022 Registration Email Domains

This mod allows you to block users from registering when their email address domain is on a spam list. There are currently 261022 email address domains on the included spam lists. There is one list for every 0-9, a-z character plus one exemption list. However, there is no guarantee that every entry on a list is a true spam domain.

The lists were compiled by combining a personal list with various online sources, none of which disallows use in a mod such as this. Therefore, brought to you is this spam list mod. You can add or remove entries from the spam list files. If you add an entry, make sure to add it as a lowercase entry. The plugin takes care of the rest.

The various spam list files range is size from about 4.0kb to around 0.4mb so be sure that you have enough memory available before installing this mod. The mod calls in the exemption list and one spam list file, and unsets them as soon as possible to free memory. If an email address domain is on the exemption list, it is not blocked.

Should a user be blocked from registering at your forum, an email will be sent to your vB webmasteremail address and the user will see the vB banemail phrase message, so no screenshot of this mod is necessary. Everything is in alphabetical order so if you do not like the spam list files, just make your own set of files. Enjoy!

[BoredOutOfMyMin]

Originally Posted by calorie

Edit the vB banemail phrase to read something like this:

This list works with 3.7 Beta.

It totally eliminated our spam when using 3.6 and thank you again Calorie for a great product!

[bplinson]

Just installed 10 minutes ago and already blocking emails from a domain that I have been having trouble with.

[REVHEAD]

Installed

[bplinson]

Installed for over 24 hours now and is working very well. Only one legitimate user was blocked and I fixed that.

I have had one very persistent person (or BOT) trying to register with the email address of hi-d@mail.ru . He, She, or it tired to register at least six times. I always that it was BOTs doing the registrations. Would a BOT attempt to register this many times?

Also, maybe I am paranoid but does anyone think that once the spammers realize that they can not longer register that they will attempt to cause other problem with your forum like a DOS attack?

[tommac3]

Is there a version of this for 3.7?

Recently all of my boards are getting bombarded with new users that appear to be either hackers or spam. I blocked .ru and .ee but some of the IP addresses are from rusia.

[REVHEAD]

Originally Posted by tommac3

Is there a version of this for 3.7?

Recently all of my boards are getting bombarded with new users that appear to be either hackers or spam. I blocked .ru and .ee but some of the IP addresses are from rusia.

I am using this version On VB 3.7, and rolled over from 3.6 when if was released, no problems what so ever, it is very safe to use for 3.7, I have had hundrens of spammers blocked using this mod.

[goldendox]

There are now aol spammers registering. How do we add them to spamlist? Thanks.

[Eq4bits]

open the 'allow' file and take /at/aol.com off that list, save the file, then open the 'a' file, scroll down to the appropriate alpha spot and add /at/aol.com, save the file.

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

Just so everyone knows, I upgraded to vB 3.8.0 RC1 over the weekend and re-installed Spam List successfully without any problems... seems to still work fine.

[xspazx]

This mod single handedly stopped all bots! all the other ones helped but this one stopped completely. I recommend it to anyone with a problem with those damn spam bots.