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!

[kall]

I love this mod. I get over 25 'User blocked from registering' emails a day.

A request: Put the IP address of the attempted spammer in the email, so we can track if the person has managed to find a domain we have not yet blocked.

[Eq4bits]

Originally Posted by bplinson

Why not use the NoSpam! - an alternative to CAPTCHA images plug-in in conjunction with the USER BANNING OPTIONS that are already in vBulletin.

vBulletin Options>User Banning Options>Banned Email Addresses

This plug-in just seem redundant to me.

I have that installed and they STILL register... at least 10 a day.... no more tho
oh
and add
instant-profits.biz to the 'i' list

[bplinson]

That is crazy. I have only seen one get through since I installed it and made up 20 questions for it.

[MarcG]

Thank You...installed

[Ducks]

Spammers uses random emailadresses, so I can't see the point, it's just banning a lot of addresses.

[kall]

Originally Posted by kall

I love this mod. I get over 25 'User blocked from registering' emails a day.

A request: Put the IP address of the attempted spammer in the email, so we can track if the person has managed to find a domain we have not yet blocked.

Well, I figured out how to add the IP stuff.. it's very messy but it does tell me who the scumbags are when they manage to find a domain not banned.

@Ducks: Do you carry the same opinion about the default vBulletin options to ban email domains and IP addresses?

[Jessi]

WHOA! Everyone needs to check ALL of the "User Blocked" emails. This is doing a great job at catching Spammers (10 + a day). But it is also ticking off real users who want to join (2 - 5 a day), as it tells tells them there address is banned.

So this is what I did. I emptied all the files of all email addresses, I put the ones that have came to my site and are spam.

I am using the "Forbid Users from Posting Links or Images if They Have Fewer than 15 Posts".

I use Welcome Headers to warn people that all begining posts are moderated and that you can NOT post "Links" until your an approved member.

I changed the Phrase "error_nourlallowed" to say that "You can't post links untill full member approval", yes, it's a lie, they don't know that.

I changed the "Registered Users" to "New member". I also changed this to a "Moderated group".

I then created another "Registered User" group with full privaledges.

I then made a couple mods to help throughout the day.

If there Spammers, I add them to the spam list, if not, I add them to my registered users list.

Yes, this is a pain to set up, but it's better than losing members.

[Eq4bits]

Originally Posted by transitbus

Keeping my eye on this one. The majority of my registers use yahoo, hotmail or gmail as their primary address so I would be killing my board if I used this list as it stands.

It's really really *easy* to take those address domains off the lists, there is *also* a file for *allowed* addresses that you can add them to.
After having over 100 in a 24 hour period trying to register with the following I feel it's well worth it... of course if you really really wanted the extra work you could go through the 1-z files and copy the obvious ones and add them to the 'banned' addresses in admincp>vBoptions... but why do that?
@gerder.com
@alogco.com
@gotopl.info
@mail.ru
@gala.net
@supermortgagerate.info
@cresthomeloan.info
@readnowgetpaid.com
@promedveda.info
@cashette.com
@list.ru
@hotpop.com
@16girlshogtied.info

I also figure, with the email I receive as webmaster if a blocked registration *happens* to look legit (so far *none* have) I can always remove the domain from the blocked file/add to the allowed file, and email the person to 'try again'.

[girlboheme]

I have this installed. Does an EXCELLENT job. Thanks!!

But I get about twenty people a day emailing me with outrage asking me why I banned them when they have never even been there before :| Is there any way for us to word this thing so less people email me thinking I banned them? I mean, I can't believe how many nimrods can't figure it out :/ Not to be mean, but its getting on my last nerve.

This is a wonderful hack though. The best thing. Works so well half the members have trouble getting past it, lol.

[calorie]

Edit the vB banemail phrase to read something like this:

The administrator has banned the domain name used in your email address because spam was being posted from users wth that domain name. Even if you are not a spammer, there are spammers using the domain name in your email address. If you wish to register, please use a different email address.