FECKIN SPAMMERS!

[Circuitbenders]

This is probably a long shot but does anyone know of any reliable method of stopping spammers signing up to this forum? At the moment i'm having to delete about 20-30 accounts every day with email addresses such as XXXX@viagra.com or similar. I'm assuming that most of these sign ups are automatic as they never get verified because the email address doesn't actually exist, so whats the point of them?

I've already banned every registration from a .ru email and a few other suspect ones but other than needing every registration to be approved by hand i don't see what can be done about it?

any ideas?

[gmeredith]

I think the only way is to do member verification approval, most of the Yahoo forums I'm in have had to do it that way. I've seen one forum completely destroyed by spam.

Cheers, Graham

[Circuitbenders]

Its getting a bit daft now.

137 attempted registrations from banned known spammer emails. IP's and domains in the last 2 days! 

[Luka]

we just keep banning common extensions of their email address

and also make sure that users cant post urls until they reach a certain amount of posts

[Signal:Noise]

We've got a big problem with spammers over at FSOR, had to delete around 20 post of utter shit just today.

[Circuitbenders]

Only ever had 3 actual posts from spammers on this board, endless sign ups though. I don't understand the point of it

[Signal:Noise]

Can we find out where the people programming the spam bots live and then force feed them spam until their lower intestines expolde?

[Circuitbenders]

to be honest i find it quite insulting that these cretins seem to think they are going to get away with attempting to register with an email address like pharmacist@viagra.com or hotbustybabes@freesex.com.

Not that i have anything against hot busty babes but you'd think they could at least attempt to be sneaky about it and use a slightly less obvious email address

[kick52]

It's a mystery to me how the fuck these people think spam works.
I get IRC spam. It's fucking pointless.