Age: 46 Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 459 Location: Cornwall,U.K.
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:32 pm Spammers back ??
Since 26th September there have been 114 new members, all with very suspicious usernames, just click on memberlist & sort by descending, notice they are all female & all profiles contain links to very questionable websites.
21 more of them registered since midnight last night.
For my forum I use a website called stop forum spam to check new members, this site has a database of all known spammers usernames, emails and IP addressses, & I checked some of these new members on this database & quite a few of them are listed as reported spammers.
None of them have posted anything yet though or even logged into the forum.
Age: 46 Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 459 Location: Cornwall,U.K.
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:45 pm
Just out of interest, that amzee75 is listed 8 times on stop forum spam, all with different IP addresses, but the same email address & originates from Pakistan.
Age: 46 Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 459 Location: Cornwall,U.K.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:26 am
As far as I know there is no script to clear all these users from the database.
You'd have to delete them all individually.
You might be able to mass delete users through phpMyAdmin through your server's control panel, but would be an idea to backup the database first, they should be in the database table PHPBB_USERS
Setting new registartions to admin approval would stop them from registering but it's having someone check on a daily basis.
Upgrading the board from phpbb2 to phpbb3 is very complicated, but phpbb3 has much better spambot controls, I use one called sortables captcha which is very effective.
Age: 48 Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 1353 Location: a planet all of my own ....
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:33 am
Looks like the trolls/spammers are back in the off-topic sction again ...
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Age: 46 Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 459 Location: Cornwall,U.K.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:32 pm
I pop on here everyday so have been letting Kanta know about these posts.
There's nearly 1000 spam users on here & they are registering on a daily basis so it must be a bot doing it.
Just beats me why they do it, surely they must have better things to do than set up these bots to spam forums.
They must know everytime they do it they'll get their posts removed & banned.
Age: 48 Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 1353 Location: a planet all of my own ....
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:17 pm
Adam wrote:
I pop on here everyday so have been letting Kanta know about these posts.
There's nearly 1000 spam users on here & they are registering on a daily basis so it must be a bot doing it.
Just beats me why they do it, surely they must have better things to do than set up these bots to spam forums.
They must know everytime they do it they'll get their posts removed & banned.
That's OK Adam, they just seemed to be more visible than usual lately, so thought I would add my two pence ...
( ps - I also visit here most days to look around, even though I haven't logged in for a while before today, so I had already noticed you are quick to pick up these things .... )
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