Getting lots of spammers recently.. all emails from one domain

[curry684]

I've also blocked Cashette.com and Mail.ru from registering a while back, didn't know it was such a global problem.

All this discussion aside: are these manual or automatic registrations? And in the case of the second, how do they get past CAPTCHA?

I'm getting lots of other "spam" registrations as well, which kind of makes me worry about vBulletin's CAPTCHA implementation.

[jwbond]

I'm getting tons too! Does turning "image verification" on stop it?

I tried to do so, but the images are not popping up in the "User Registration Options". It says " If you do not see an image below then your Image settings are wrong or not enabled."

Can anyone help me? I am going on my honeymoon this weekend and don't want porn spam on my forums unmoderated for a week!

[OKIHost]

Originally Posted by jwbond

I'm getting tons too! Does turning "image verification" on stop it?

I tried to do so, but the images are not popping up in the "User Registration Options". It says " If you do not see an image below then your Image settings are wrong or not enabled."


Can anyone help me? I am going on my honeymoon this weekend and don't want porn spam on my forums unmoderated for a week!

Not really, I still get about 10 a week on my VERY dead forum. Enabling requiring new users to verify email address does help some. vb 3.6 is supposed to have an improved image verification system which should help.

I have also noticed a few from @fromru.com in the past few days.

[curry684]

Originally Posted by jwbond

I'm getting tons too! Does turning "image verification" on stop it?

No, I have it enabled. Hence my question why they still get in despite CAPTCHA. Some people are doing bored manual registrations it seems.

I tried to do so, but the images are not popping up in the "User Registration Options". It says " If you do not see an image below then your Image settings are wrong or not enabled."

Check your GD install.

Can anyone help me? I am going on my honeymoon this weekend and don't want porn spam on my forums unmoderated for a week!

Get a moderator

[mrrockford]

Howdy,

there is some new bot program that is reading the captchas and answering the opt-in mails, sometimes even throwing up a post. I have been getting 2 or 3 a day and up to 10. At least the forum is small enough that I can catch them. I have it down to 3 main ISPs now, cashette.com, mail.ru and gawab.com all spamming one forum which is now invisible. I'm also looking at a new captcha system based on this:

http://www.mshp.dps.mo.gov/CJ38/search.jsp

the forum that is getting hit has the highest google hits.