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Flooded with spam membership requests

Started by probeman, October 17, 2024, 12:45:00 PM

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probeman

We're getting flooded with spam membership requests (see image attached below). I've never seen it this bad before.  We already installed the latest Stop Forum Spam mod and it didn't help at all.

Is there anything else we can do?

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

In my experience, Stop Forum Spam is really good, the built in security questions are very good too, and combined they work great.
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probeman

Quote from: Aleksi on October 17, 2024, 12:53:55 PMIn my experience, Stop Forum Spam is really good, the built in security questions are very good too, and combined they work great.

I'm already "requiring verification on registration page" and using reCaptcha.

I don't see any "built-in" "security questions".  By "security questions" do you mean the "Verification Questions" on the Stop Forum Spam admin page? 

It says "You should choose questions which relate to the subject of your forum. Genuine users will be able to answer these questions, while spam bots will not."

Is that what you mean by "built-in"?

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

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"Before you allow people access to your forum, especially in an administrative position, you must be aware that that person can seriously damage your forum. Therefore, you should only allow people that you trust, implicitly, to have such access." -Douglas

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Kindred

and note, you should have 20-30 GOOD questions as the queue.  Ask 1 or 2 on registration -- and be ready to change the whole set if you see spambots starting to get through after some time.
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I haven't had any spam membership since adding it to my site

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