PLEASE Help!!! Tons of Spammers, any advice?!?!

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  • deadhook
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2005
    • 220

    PLEASE Help!!! Tons of Spammers, any advice?!?!

    I'm getting so many f'ing spammers that it's driving me insane. I would love ANY advice on anything I can do to make some difference in preventing them from registering and spamming my site.

    I've got the registration so that they have to activate their account which hopefully helps a bit by making it more of a pain to post, but many still are doing it and it's driving me nuts.

    I never had this problem before, but as my site got bigger, so did the number of spammers.

    I did not activate "Aggressive Email Banning" but have entered into the Ban By Email field the ends of some of their addresses to prevent more logins from the same site. (In other words, I have "@topvideogals.com" and "@yourmedserver.info") entered, so maybe that will help some.

    Thanks!
  • Floris
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 37767

    #2
    Make sure you run 3.6.4, make sure you have image verification turned on, and make sure it is using random fonts and backgrounds and the other options.

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    • feldon23
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2001
      • 11291
      • 3.7.x

      #3
      Some one-time-use e-mails that you can ban without worry:

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      • Steve Machol
        Former Customer Support Manager
        • Jul 2000
        • 154488

        #4
        How to Reduce Spam and Registration Bots
        Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
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        • steven s
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2004
          • 3722
          • 3.8.x

          #5
          Since following the above advice I have not had one spammer in weeks.
          The system really does work.
          ...steven
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          • deadhook
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2005
            • 220

            #6
            Great!!!!!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!

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