A series of 6 random Q&A Human Verification Options (industry related to forum purpose)
VB Bad Behavior (checks for mischievous scripts)
Spambot Stopper (if a bot fills it out too fast, it will reject)
Glowhost Spam-O-Matic (Checks email and IP against known spammer blacklists. Make sure you DONT have the username checking enabled)
Mandatory custom fields (industry related, for verification)
Once email verified, they're moved to a temporary group. Then the mods manually move them to their final security group, and send them a personal welcome email. (based on membership status to our trade org)
The above tools stop 99.9% of them.
However, I'm here tonight looking for info because someone DID get through somehow. They were able to make an account without answering the mandatory profile fields, and I'm baffled at how this was possible. Any ideas? I checked all the files and none were suspect, I repaired/optimized tables, have didnt see anything odd in the server logs. This one has be concerned and puzzled. The IP was from Spain and their email, account name, and ip are not on stopforumspam.com
08-02-2013, 09:58 PM
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