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?
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.
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
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