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Customizing SMF => Building Your Community and other Forum Advice => Topic started by: SulevFan on July 30, 2019, 11:27:15 AM

Title: Vast flood of spam registrations from .xyz domains
Post by: SulevFan on July 30, 2019, 11:27:15 AM
For a few days (weeks?) now I've encountered huge numbers of new registrations from .xyz domains. About 50% of them are immediately flagged by the Stop Forum Spam mod (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1519), but the rest get through. They're easy enough to nuke, but I'm just wondering of others are also seeing this?
Title: Re: Vast flood of spam registrations from .xyz domains
Post by: vbgamer45 on July 30, 2019, 11:31:02 AM
You can add *.xyz email ban. That will stopt hose.
Title: Re: Vast flood of spam registrations from .xyz domains
Post by: SulevFan on July 31, 2019, 06:38:31 PM
yea, that and changing the challenge questions on the forum did the trick.  No more spammy registrations.