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dylan
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« on: July 12, 2010, 03:22:25 pm »
A load of dummy user accounts have now been deleted from the forum. Most of these were accounts that had never posted here, but linked to another website for the purposes of link spamming.

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« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2010, 12:03:12 pm »
Looks like the latest "newest" user uilyin2024 is the same.....
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« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2010, 12:33:50 pm »
It's really difficult to stop people registering for spam purposes to be honest. New registrations require the user to complete a 'reCAPTCHA' question, but this only stops bots and not people.

The only thing I could do would be to prevent people from having forum signatures and web addresses and that would suck, or require a certain number of posts to be made before the option can be 'switched on' (but that requires me to change the way we're already set up and that sucks too!).
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« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2010, 03:15:08 pm »
Yeh, looks as we are discussing this you have a new spam member!
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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2010, 05:27:34 pm »
Are they coming from any particular IP addresses etc..?
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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2010, 09:41:25 pm »
US, asia, all over really. We could I suppose black list all non UK addresses but then (unless we add exclusions to that list) we block the search engines too.
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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2010, 10:58:29 pm »
Two more for you  "rosalindgallowsy67" and "gtraceywalkery"
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« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2010, 01:39:08 pm »
******Edited by Fastethernet******

No point in leaving any copies of this junk Wink

******Edited by Fastethernet******

Oh the irony.
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« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2010, 02:24:18 pm »
Quote from: richardmyers on August 28, 2010, 01:39:08 pm
No point in leaving any copies of this junk Wink
No I've seen it in about four different topics already... Angry
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