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Old 10-02-2008, 04:34 PM
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I have probably gotten 200 spam accounts sign up in the past two days.

I don't see anything called "Q&A" or any such option listed in the Human Verification section of the vb options in the ACP. Is there another name?
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Old 10-02-2008, 04:38 PM
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I have probably gotten 200 spam accounts sign up in the past two days.

I don't see anything called "Q&A" or any such option listed in the Human Verification section of the vb options in the ACP. Is there another name?
It's under the main vBulletin Options heading (vboptiomns > Human Verification Manager), not the second one (vboptions > vbopitons > Human Verification Options),
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Old 10-02-2008, 05:07 PM
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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).
Yeah, there's a 'wave' any thoughts?
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Old 10-02-2008, 05:45 PM
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Yeah, there's a 'wave' any thoughts?
So far we haven't been hit, but I have posted in my Staff forum telling my Mods about this and asking them to post in that thread I made if they see it happening. I hate having first posts moderated, it causes problems in a couple of my forums. I am also thinking of adding some users to our One-touch Spam Ban hack. We have some trusted users who are always around (it seems) and they could probably see the spam right away and get rid of it. I'm tempted to turn back on the email notification in my Is Bot hack, but not so tempted to actually do it since I don't feel like getting my siteadmin account flooded!
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Old 10-02-2008, 05:49 PM
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I got hit rather hard with bot registrations yesterday, but luckily they weren't able to post any threads, however. I had about ~60 registrations yesterday, a good 90% chunk of that being bots.
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Old 10-02-2008, 07:53 PM
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I'm having same problems guys . All the ips i checked came from russia, latvia, netherland, panama, japan, and couple from germany.

I have strong feeling they are just stupid kids who are spamming our forums .
The Human Verification Options are turned on but they are still registering and confiming their email addresses.

Anyway, i turned off the registration option and made the forum private for guests. Now the only registered members can access the website which mean it sucks for the new customers.

I hope the VB managers and administrators can give us some advices on this.

Thank you for reading my post
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Old 10-02-2008, 08:10 PM
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Well it's nice to witness this digital era's phenomenon, but I mean, how do they decided to attack at once and so many of us? what's the purpose, because I don't think ppl fell for it anymore... and to such knowledge I don't see economic retribution...
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Old 10-03-2008, 01:31 PM
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We're getting a couple a day as well starting a few days ago. A couple came from the same ip leading back to something.broadband.ru so I just blocked their ip range. Now this morning I've gotten one from Burma and one from somewhere else. I hate to keep banning ip ranges as there COULD BE a legit person wanting to join that has the same provider but what else can we do?

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Old 10-03-2008, 02:25 PM
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Ive been getting about 50 bots a day... spamming porn, viagra, medicine, god knows what else =[
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Well ours are currently registering but not doing the email verification. Hopefully if nothing else it continues that way. It just makes for having to do unnecessary cleanup.

It sux.
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