Hi
since 21.5.2008 I have also all the mentioned spammers on my different forums. All vb forums. Version 3.68, 3.6.10 and 3.7. More then 10 forums.
I have always captcha on (GD true image), I have always e-mail verification on and I have always at least one mandatory field for a profile question (select option box).
So this is not a version issue.
Surprisingly, I have under the same "roof" also other forums with a different software (discusware.com). No spam attack there at all!
So these guys have obviously focused on vb only.
The way how they behave is always the same. They register on one board, then they do nothing for 1-2 days. After that they start posting.
They do not register on all of my forums at the same time. The same username does it on one day on forum 1, on the second day on forum 2 etc. All forums are under one roof and are linked to each other.
I have Englisch and German forums, so the language seems not to be a criteria.
Now there are 2 very serious problems, noone in this thread mentioned before:
1. These accounts are able to post, although the exact same IP was banned one day before
2. These accounts are able to post, although all gmail e-mail addresses are blocked (also for old users) one day before.
How is this possible? And how to fix this asap?
since 21.5.2008 I have also all the mentioned spammers on my different forums. All vb forums. Version 3.68, 3.6.10 and 3.7. More then 10 forums.
I have always captcha on (GD true image), I have always e-mail verification on and I have always at least one mandatory field for a profile question (select option box).
So this is not a version issue.
Surprisingly, I have under the same "roof" also other forums with a different software (discusware.com). No spam attack there at all!
So these guys have obviously focused on vb only.
The way how they behave is always the same. They register on one board, then they do nothing for 1-2 days. After that they start posting.
They do not register on all of my forums at the same time. The same username does it on one day on forum 1, on the second day on forum 2 etc. All forums are under one roof and are linked to each other.
I have Englisch and German forums, so the language seems not to be a criteria.
Now there are 2 very serious problems, noone in this thread mentioned before:
1. These accounts are able to post, although the exact same IP was banned one day before
2. These accounts are able to post, although all gmail e-mail addresses are blocked (also for old users) one day before.
How is this possible? And how to fix this asap?
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