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SMF Support => SMF 2.1.x Support => Topic started by: muratbora on November 06, 2019, 01:47:08 AM

Title: How to prevent spam registration on SMF forum?
Post by: muratbora on November 06, 2019, 01:47:08 AM
How to prevent spam registration on SMF forum? I use latest version of SMF, last 1 week it started to register spam users every day many.
Spam prevention tools of SMS forum is active. But it does not help.
What to do? Can you advice?

Title: Re: How to prevent spam registration on SMF forum?
Post by: Arantor on November 06, 2019, 02:29:33 AM
Spam - my forum is flooded with spam, what can I do  (https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam%2C_what_can_I_do)
Title: Re: How to prevent spam registration on SMF forum?
Post by: Northern Ireland on November 06, 2019, 06:04:50 AM
ask a couple of questions when the user registers.  To register, the 'person' has to correctly answer your two questions.

a bot/spammer will be defeated.

I haven't had a spam registration in nearly 10 years.