You love it!
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You love it!
Have you installed some kind of spam protection? I set up a PHPBB3 forum about a week ago, and I have thousands of spam posts already! I have a CAPTCHA, but it doesn't seem to be working....
- skunk workz
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I run a number of PHPBB forums, and have successfully cut the spam bots off with this plugin (which is actually just a few edits):magician13134 wrote:Have you installed some kind of spam protection? I set up a PHPBB3 forum about a week ago, and I have thousands of spam posts already! I have a CAPTCHA, but it doesn't seem to be working....
http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... b_id=10115
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Re: You love it!
actualyl what is sad is these people are registering by hand
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Could it be spambots using humans via a mechanical turk system to solve the captchas?
http://siliconvalleysleuth.co.uk/2007/1 ... hanic.html
http://siliconvalleysleuth.co.uk/2007/1 ... hanic.html
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not unlikely. they are also spamming in a strange way where they post an 'innocuous' note first
i think they follow it up with spam later or hope it gets buried and then they change the sig
they all seem to be coming from yahoo.in and gmail.com
i think they follow it up with spam later or hope it gets buried and then they change the sig
they all seem to be coming from yahoo.in and gmail.com
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In my experience, by the time I've gotten a spammer, their IP or email had already been listed at http://www.stopforumspam.com/. A phpbb3 mod to hook into their database is here.
Of course, you might already be using this, in which case, your spammers are more sophisticated than mine were.
Of course, you might already be using this, in which case, your spammers are more sophisticated than mine were.
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There's a new way of doing it now, which I just saw on this board. Seems stupid, but they are making what looks like a normal post, almost relevant to topic, then below that they have what looks like blank space but is actually a bunch of links to their spam sites that are text colored the same as the forum background.
These are a quotes of the ones I just reported:
[quote="rose2009"]Hi, your idea is very interesting , I really like it. Thanks a lot
[redacted]
[quote="jennyfifi"]Thanks for your sharing. Thanks for sharing this useful information. It's great.
[redacted]
(Mods feel free to delete the quoted text after you see it, if you need to)
These are a quotes of the ones I just reported:
[quote="rose2009"]Hi, your idea is very interesting , I really like it. Thanks a lot
[redacted]
[quote="jennyfifi"]Thanks for your sharing. Thanks for sharing this useful information. It's great.
[redacted]
(Mods feel free to delete the quoted text after you see it, if you need to)
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Re: You love it!
oh smart!
ok thanks for letting us know
ok thanks for letting us know
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