Spam

[RickWeb]

Whats going on at the moment in last day i have seen 4 topics being spammed by bots? And these users have a least 5 or 6 posted all spam?

[thecoalman]

I dunno but the captcha for VB must be broken, do they use image captcha here?

Simple solution is add a human answerable question... e.g What's the name of ourcompany, it's in big letters in the upper right... buh bye spam...

I used that on a phpbb2 forum which were notoriously easy to get by the image captcha and didn't see a single spam bot for better than year until I switched to phpbb3. They haven't broken that image captcha yet but its only a matter of time.

[Connie]

Spam gives the Mods something to do. By the way have you reported the spam?

[RickWeb]

Spam gives the Mods something to do. By the way have you reported the spam?

Yeah i reported the name of user in question to greg

[LeeUmm]

Ya I've been noticing more myself. I usually click the 'report post' button if I run across any.

[Gwaihir]

Comes and goes. These recent ones posted an unusual number of (identical) posts. Most leave it at one - three posts. I guess a flood like that only motivates the mods to take care of it faster..

[RickWeb]

i think it is getting worse

[thecoalman]

I dunno but the captcha for VB must be broken, do they use image captcha here?

Simple solution is add a human answerable question... e.g What's the name of ourcompany, it's in big letters in the upper right... buh bye spam...

[RickWeb]

Its deffo getting worse i keep getting emails with things like the following in them because of posts.

Now I know.Thanks you very much.---------------------------------------------------------------->We are the creators of beautiful handmade copper sinks (some random site)

[Connie]

What is worse is that individual spammers are posting in more threads at a time. I think it was the day you started the thread I moved 25 spams from on user, and over 40 from another.

[thecoalman]

I dunno but the captcha for VB must be broken, do they use image captcha here?

Simple solution is add a human answerable question... e.g What's the name of ourcompany, it's in big letters in the upper right... buh bye spam... .

Besides they keep bumping my own spam down in the Market Place Forum

[thecoalman]

Business Marketing,China's mobile phone number [link removed by me] Help your hands!

Ohhhhh the irony.... A spammer posting in thread about spam.

[RickWeb]

what can you do

[thecoalman]

Well they are obviously bots because they post about 10 messages really quick. That means the captcha system is broke and needs to be fixed.

When I had phpbb2 which was notoriously easy to beat I installed a question captcha mod and spam dropped to 0 . Ive since moved to phpbb3 and that image captcha has not been beaten yet anywhere... at least confirmed. I've had handful of human spammers in the last 2 or 3 years.... I don't even require email activation. At least make them work for it.