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06-19-2011, 12:35 PM

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All the capchas in the world won't stop human spammers, and to answer the OP's original question, yes it probably is a human using google to answer that question.

How often does it change because if they can answer it once and add it to a database somewhere they never need to worry about it again.

Is your forum mostly specific to 1 country or area? Moderating entire countries from joining might be an option. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231315 - The mod is for 4.x but I think it will work on 3.8 too.

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