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cmmguy · #11 10-01-2008, 07:23 PM

I have had a 5 spammers sign up today all from a very narrow band of IP addresses. I already had the Miserable User installed and put the first two segments of the IP addresses in to the Miserable User IP field.
This stopped them from becoming a problem even thought they signed up.

I also added 4 required fields that are related to my industry. Only legit users would know the answers. The addition of required fields that dont match the BOT script stops a lot of them. The ones that sign up manually dont know the correct type of answer and make finding the spammers a lot easier.

One other thing... I have unlimited texting on my phone so I have my forum setup to text me when a new user signs up. The text shows me the name of the user and most users in my field use relatively "normal" user names so a spammer user stands out. I can easily check the one that dont look legit and I can catch a trend of new users even when I am not near a computer and decide if I need to get to one.

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btw.

How are the spammers finding our forums?
What is consistant in the forum that they are googling for?
Is there a list on vBulletin.com or .org that they are using to find us?

Just curious if there is something that can be changed. I know that I use /forum with my domain - is this a bad thing?

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