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Drug Spamming · **Released**: 05-13-2006

I have a question for y'all. Is it just me or have y'all had an influx recently of spammers with .ru e-mail addresses spamming your boards with drg company ads. I just had to censor about 30 different links as well as ban a few IP's.

How do y'all safeguard against this on your boards?

Just a couple examples of what I just dealt with...

A lot of urls ending in *.fullka.com

(Edit out a couple of life links to domains for drugs, MarcoH64)

sv1cec · #22 04-24-2007, 04:47 AM

Well, the image verification takes care of that, the question alternative is a good one too for those visually impaired, but what about those who register to spam? I had several of those, selling cellular phones etc. No more.

clarkstoncracke · #23 04-24-2007, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Well, the image verification takes care of that, the question alternative is a good one too for those visually impaired, but what about those who register to spam? I had several of those, selling cellular phones etc. No more.

image verification does not work 100% of the time.
I'm almost positive that all the spams I used to receive were from bots, and they would get through the image verification.

I've been spam free for 25 days!

Brad · #24 04-24-2007, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clarkstoncracke

image verification does not work 100% of the time.
I'm almost positive that all the spams I used to receive were from bots, and they would get through the image verification.

I've been spam free for 25 days!

We've had a number of bots but most of them seem to be registered by a real person. Often times we'll see an account registered months ago (with no or one post) go on a spamming spree.

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