Well on my vb3.8 forum there are spambots capable of bypass both image and recaptcha validation. Luckily they still cannot activate their account with these fake emails, so none of them actually is posting. Still its so annoying, have to ban them every now and then.
I do notice something interesting though. Almost all of these bots register with the profile field 'site name' as '123456', which pretty much serves as proof of them being spammers(the 'sitename' is the last optional profile field on my forum). So I wonder, is there a way to block registration based on what the user enters in profile field? For instance, if a user fills '123456' in the profile field 'sitename', he/she will be blocked/banned for registering. Is this possible? If so, please lemme know so I dont have to see those disgusting bots. I hate to sound like a hypocrite, but even just seeing their usernames makes me sick.
Below is an example of this pathetic bot, which has sitename profile field as '123456' just like most spammers my forum happens to have before.
I do notice something interesting though. Almost all of these bots register with the profile field 'site name' as '123456', which pretty much serves as proof of them being spammers(the 'sitename' is the last optional profile field on my forum). So I wonder, is there a way to block registration based on what the user enters in profile field? For instance, if a user fills '123456' in the profile field 'sitename', he/she will be blocked/banned for registering. Is this possible? If so, please lemme know so I dont have to see those disgusting bots. I hate to sound like a hypocrite, but even just seeing their usernames makes me sick.
Below is an example of this pathetic bot, which has sitename profile field as '123456' just like most spammers my forum happens to have before.
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