Spammers attacking one specific forum topic

[chrisrouse]

I've been monitoring the spam attacks on our forums. It looks like whatever the first forum is in the second category that we have is what they go after. I've confirmed that be re-arranging the forum order as well as adding a new forum just to catch everything.

The category name is "General Topics". Is there something about the name that draws spam to that?

This is just since late last night.

[jonii]

Send me a PM to help you.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by jonii

Send me a PM to help you.

Jonii, don't get me wrong - but out of your 4 posts here three ask other people to send you a pm for you to help them. On the other hand, you have not once helped out w/o this request.

Call me paranoid - but I find this suspicious. I have no idea what you're asking from those users in pn, or why you find it better to not just post (so others with the same problem can profit, too), but still...

[ozzy47]

Yeah if he truly wants to help, that's cool, but a new user with 4 posts, only asking members to pm him does seem suspicious.

Before giving anyone your information, or committing to a paid / unpaid job, you should read this, Protection Recommendations

[WEBDosser]

does your website verify email on registration?

[Max Taxable]

You're allowing spambots to register and post?

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Originally Posted by WEBDosser

does your website verify email on registration?

That's been bypassed by botnets for a long time now, it's a useless feature completely. Not only do they get legitimate yahoo, gmail, hotmail and other email addresses by bypassing those site's human verification systems, they get the verification code from the pageload, instantly.

[WEBDosser]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

You're allowing spambots to register and post?.

That's what I was trying to say.. basically the same thing.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by WEBDosser

That's what I was trying to say.. basically the same thing.

That's what you would ask, if you thought email verification stops botnets. It doesn't.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Well I see something that no one else has, in that forum "General Topics" you have "Spam honeypot" , I don't know about you guys but this is definitely going to attract bots that are searching to spam just because they are probably searching to see what it is that "spam honeypots" are doing to try and stop them.

I have said it before, these bots are looking for "keywords" just like search engines do, that is why I do not use anything that fights off spammers.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

Well I see something that no one else has, in that forum "General Topics" you have "Spam honeypot" , I don't know about you guys but this is definitely going to attract bots that are searching to spam just because they are probably searching to see what it is that "spam honeypots" are doing to try and stop them.

I have said it before, these bots are looking for "keywords" just like search engines do, that is why I do not use anything that fights off spammers.

I simply keep them from registering, I don't care if they are keyword junkies or not.

Just curious why anyone would allow them to register and post.