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Old 10-02-2008, 02:01 AM
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Has anyone else noticed a big increase in spam bot postings and registrations today?

Today on two of my vb installations I've had 100+ posts from multiple spam accounts. Up until today I've never really got too much spam, because my boards aren't too big.

My boards @ jayscountry.ca pretty much never had a spam bot register or post, but today I've been flooded. 4 spam bots are online right now:
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Currently Active Users: 8 (5 members and 3 guests)
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Erik, Juscuptuppobe, plupierly, TetrySozy, vaniaandkicig

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Two spam accounts had 24 posts... easy enough to remove the posts and ban... but then there were 15+ spam accounts with 1 post.

Any suggestions for anti-spammage and mass account removal?
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Old 10-02-2008, 04:29 AM
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reCaptcha or Q&A... i'm trying Q&A for awhile.. seems like the normal image verification is to easy for bots to pass.. or
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Old 10-02-2008, 04:49 AM
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Some spam bots now use humans to decipher the CAPTCHA/Q&A, before automatically spamming a forum.
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Old 10-02-2008, 02:10 PM
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I got hit VERY hard yesterday. I turned on the email verification (had it turned off due to some email issues from my IP) and that alone seemed to cut down about 90% of it. The bots would still register, but not be allowed to post as they were'nt verified.

I don't see a Q&A functionality in the Human Verifcation system. Is that part of vb 3.7?
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I don't see a Q&A functionality in the Human Verifcation system. Is that part of vb 3.7?
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Old 10-02-2008, 02:25 PM
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Yep, I'm getting spam on my site also, I wonder why? I'm looking for an anti spam hack. Also thinking about turning on email verification as well. Any other ideas on what I should do?
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Old 10-02-2008, 02:33 PM
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Definitely turn on email verification.
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There are several posts over on vb.com about this. I may have to go back to my two Registered Usergroup system (the first one is moderated and then users get promoted to the other one which is not).
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Old 10-02-2008, 02:46 PM
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I've seen a significant increase in the past 3 days. I've easily deleted 50 new accounts.

We have a simple way to prevent them from posting which doesn't require moderation - I'd be happy to share it privately (just in case they're watching this forum). So we don't get offensive posts, just a little admin work to delete their accounts.
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I have too. Running 3.6.10

We've had almost 100 new registrations. I stopped the new registrations using NoSpam! Verification Mod.

I am looking for a mass delete/ban account based on criteria. Anyone know of one?
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