Getting registered users different emails and different IP.

[mesteele101]

In the last week or so I have been getting dozens of New users accounts that appear to be spambots. I have setup reCAPTCHA 2 and it appears they bounce right through it.

Appears to be multiple machines infected because these accounts are coming from different email addresses and different IP addresses. About 8 out of 10 are actually getting validated.

Is there a way to stop this? 

[Joel R]

There are a couple of things you can do to help mitigate spam registrations:

1. Is your license active? IPS actually has a pretty good real-time spam service that's part of your active license.  

2. You can turn on Q&A security questions.  Make sure that your questions are specific and unique to your communitys topic. 

3. Turn on content moderation for the first X posts, to help clean up your community.  

[Black Tiger]

1. If you're license is not active then if I remember correctly there are some anti-spam mods.

2.) Next to content moderation, You can also choose to manually approve members after e-mail confirmation, this takes however some more work.

Unfortunately the Q&A is not very helpfull as there is only 1 question asked. Would be a good thing if you could choose how many random questions are asked. Some here think that's not much use but we had a very good experience against bots (on 3 forums) using 3 or 5 simple random questions.