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Posted July 14, 20186 yr My community seems to be getting hit by a decent spam bot as its making past cloudflare browser check and reCAPTCHA V2. Bot seems to use a bunch of random outlook.com emails then just post a bunch of Chinese crap. I want to temporarily block outlook.com emails from registering but I cant seem to find that option. Only thing I see it to generate a list of emails that are allowed to register. In the mean time I will be trying out keyCAPTCHA see if that helps.
July 14, 20186 yr Author 2 hours ago, opentype said: You can add something like *@provider.com to your ban settings. Thanks I didn't think of that.
July 14, 20186 yr 20 minutes ago, Steven Thacher said: Thanks I didn't think of that. Be careful: *.outlook.com will block all potential members with an outlook address.
July 14, 20186 yr Author Just now, Misi said: Be careful: *.outlook.com will block all potential members with an outlook address. That's what I want to do, at least temporarily. I'm not worried about running off new members.
July 14, 20186 yr Are they only registering or also creating spam posts? If you’re worried about the posts, give https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8450-spam-prevention-suite/ a try;)
July 15, 20186 yr Author On 7/14/2018 at 4:49 PM, Fosters said: Are they only registering or also creating spam posts? If you’re worried about the posts, give https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/8450-spam-prevention-suite/ a try;) Yes they are posting a bunch. I did look at your suite, can I exempt one sub forum? I do have a Chinese section.
July 15, 20186 yr 11 minutes ago, Steven Thacher said: Yes they are posting a bunch. I did look at your suite, can I exempt one sub forum? I do have a Chinese section. That’s actually an amazing idea which I’ve out to our internet suggestions tracker becsuse I can see it being helpful to many people.
July 17, 20186 yr Author On 7/15/2018 at 7:41 PM, Fosters said: That’s actually an amazing idea which I’ve out to our internet suggestions tracker because I can see it being helpful to many people. Well you can call off your bot I bought your plugin ? Only kidding. But the bot has gotten way worse, so Ill give your plugin a go hopefully it works I'm tried of manually flagging all the members.
July 24, 20186 yr I had the same issue. I hardened Spam Defense up a bit.... and now not one registration since last week. LOL.... Just can't win those guys. How the heck do they get past the Captcha? Hmmm.... Does the invisible captcha work better?
August 1, 20186 yr They just blew right past the invisible captcha.... so that answers that question. It seems like a spam storm... ;-) I added a math challenge .... and I think they will blow right past all of these.... These guys are relentless.
August 1, 20186 yr We never had a lot of problems with captcha V1. When deprecated we moved to V2 earlier this year and pfff that wasn't fun. Tweaked a whole bunch of settings and there didn't seem to be a decrease. Sure I heard about the invision built-in anti spam as an alternative to Google's prior to upgrading from IPB3 to IPS4.x, but that can be no good, right? ? Nevertheless, we decided to give it a spin for a few days, and ... its fantastic. Zero spam since then. BTW to bypass captcha? Has always been easy thanks to sites + scripts like http://www.deathbycaptcha.com
August 7, 20186 yr Author Well seems they have swapped the bot to start using Korean. They are slamming my community yet again. Seems like I'm not the only one Rather than a plugin in I think the core development team needs to come up with a solution to prevent spambots.
August 7, 20186 yr Author On 8/1/2018 at 8:29 AM, AlexWebsites said: Look up the member posting and block the IP addresses. The problem is that their IP list seems endless.
January 8, 20196 yr Those posts appear to have been posted after someone registered with the user name "tingtinghehe11" If that's true, and your "Flag as Spammer" parameters are set to delete posted content, you don't need to select all their posts and delete them. Just flag the account as Spam and all their posts will be deleted (it may take a short while to delete them as it's a background task).
January 8, 20196 yr 29 minutes ago, Mark H said: Those posts appear to have been posted after someone registered with the user name "tingtinghehe11" If that's true, and your "Flag as Spammer" parameters are set to delete posted content, you don't need to select all their posts and delete them. Just flag the account as Spam and all their posts will be deleted (it may take a short while to delete them as it's a background task). Sure but the background task takes too long, sometimes it stalls for hours.
January 8, 20196 yr 12 minutes ago, Lauren3 said: Sure but the background task takes too long, sometimes it stalls for hours. What method are you using to run the background tasks? The default setting? If yes, is your forum active? Does it have regular logged in members? The task is called by the logged in members, so if you have none, it won't proceed. You should probably switch the method
January 8, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Daniel F said: What method are you using to run the background tasks? The default setting? If yes, is your forum active? Does it have regular logged in members? The task is called by the logged in members, so if you have none, it won't proceed. You should probably switch the method Default, but my forum is very active, so it's not a problem.
January 8, 20196 yr If your forum has regular and frequent traffic, the background tasks should not stall, or take hours to complete. Have you checked your System Logs and Error Logs in the ACP to see if you have any regularly occurring errors?
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