Spammers at Futurelooks Forums
Posted by Stephen on
November 24, 2006
So the next wave of spammers have come to the Futurelooks Forums using email addresses from @gawab.com and @web.de. Going to have to nuke those two. In addition to those two, if you have a forum, you may want to ban:
- @cashette.com
- @mail.ru
- @list.ru
- @inbox.ru
- @mail15.com
Spammers have gotten so sophisticated, that they’re lame BOTS can even read the CAPTCHA graphics that only humans should be able to read. Another line of Spammers that I’ve noticed come from a company called INTELLIMINDS. They are the ones that sign up for your forums, post a couple posts, then WHAM…SPAM YOU with some lame product. This company specializes in this type of SPAMMING. You will know you have been infiltrated by the referral links from your site stats. That’s how I found them. After every SPAM campaign, their leeches have to report in, and WHAM, you’ve got
em. Hope that buys you a bit of SPAM silence for a while. IF you have any really great ideas to fight SPAM, feel free to share.
I came across a cool mod for v 3.6.0 of vBulletin (which I see you are running). It’s called NoSpam! and uses a simple challenge response when signing up. You can set the questions your self too. If it’s not a human then there is a great chance they will not be able to answer question like what is 2+2.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124828
Thanks Matthew. I’ll have to grab that. It’s getting bad over here.
Hey Stephen did you get a chance to try out the above mod?
I haven’t had issue with bots getting past Captcha’s yet but I do have an idea to try out later if they do. They involve both the captcha and basic math like what us Canadians have to fill out when we win some contents…
Yes I have. It’s doing a good job right now.