Scott Allen Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 (edited) How do I stop this? I have no means to ban someone who is not a website user. There is no way I can see to stop this user from trolling us with spam via your Support Request system. Please help Edited July 12, 2021 by Scott Allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter_X Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 (edited) If your e-mail hosting company has BoxTrapper, try to enable it (I've it under cPanel/E-mail). It is very effective avoiding spams on public e-mail addresses. Edited July 12, 2021 by Dexter_X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Allen Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 (edited) On 7/12/2021 at 2:05 PM, Dexter_X said: If your e-mail hosting company has BoxTrapper, try to enable it (I've it under cPanel/E-mail). It is very effective avoiding spams on public e-mail addresses. e-mail hosting company?! What are you talking about? These spammers are using the Contact Us form to bypass any moderation and spam this stuff in IPS... This is visible in the AdminCP See image below: Edited July 15, 2021 by Scott Allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter_X Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 10 hours ago, Scott Allen said: e-mail hosting company?! What are you talking about? i'm not talking about your APC but your hosting provider. We user a provider that allows us access to a cPanel interface with useful functions against spamming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Kjell Iver Johansen Posted July 16, 2021 Solution Share Posted July 16, 2021 Remove guest access..? Scott Allen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaven Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Sort of relates to a ticket I just opened here: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/462616-how-to-mass-delete-support-request-tickets-in-admin/ There's definitely a little attention that needs to go into the support request feature, especially since this is a pretty sizable paid upgrade. I think it does most of what's needed, just needs a little thought and polish to smooth out some pretty glaring issues that can quickly make it all but unusable very quickly. Hoping a host has a way to block it really isn't a great solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usmf Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 (edited) We are having the same problem, and even though there is an option for filtering e-mail addresses, it doesn't work. I opened a support ticket about this a couple of days ago. The official answer is that there is no help. They only supply CAPTCHA, and that's that. You just have to delete the spam messages. Which is time consuming, considering the amount we're getting, at least. Going to have to put some time into figuring out a different way to allow members to access support. This is definitely a feature that should be fixed and updated sooner than later, IMO. This was the only answer from the support ticket: The only current spam mitigation we have on the contact form is the CAPTCHA. You can try a different CAPTCHA if you think bots are getting past the current CAPTCHA you're using. Edited July 17, 2021 by usmf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Allen Posted July 17, 2021 Author Share Posted July 17, 2021 20 hours ago, Dexter_X said: i'm not talking about your APC but your hosting provider. We user a provider that allows us access to a cPanel interface with useful functions against spamming. Well, we use IPS v4.6+ with mostly default/included systems, and my question was posted here in IPS Client area because it was those systems we were using that were being abused by spammers. I do believe that a possible solution was presented by @Kjell Iver Johansen above: 17 hours ago, Kjell Iver Johansen said: Remove guest access..? ...have changed this just now, it was set (by default) to allow Guests access to this Contact Us under Applications/System - will give it a week and we'll see if it works. If so, I'm marking that as the solution. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisisabaddisplayname Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Another solution is shift the help desk to a different provider. I'm using the one provided by Invision to handle support for billing, account, things of that nature. They still are excellent in that regard. But, the immediate one is through Spiceworks, which is more readily available. It's free and has built-in spam blocking from IP's. It's more built for IT, but it fits forums based around tech. People also tend to trust it more on certain things. I've used it for every IT-related job I've had.https://www.spiceworks.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaven Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 7/18/2021 at 10:39 AM, thisisabaddisplayname said: Another solution is shift the help desk to a different provider. I'm using the one provided by Invision to handle support for billing, account, things of that nature. They still are excellent in that regard. But, the immediate one is through Spiceworks, which is more readily available. It's free and has built-in spam blocking from IP's. It's more built for IT, but it fits forums based around tech. People also tend to trust it more on certain things. I've used it for every IT-related job I've had.https://www.spiceworks.com/ Its a bummer to have to come tot his, but you might be right. I only bought the commerce app for the help desk system so its a bummer. Guess I'll just drop that end of things, especially since there's been no reply to my support thread simply asking fort a MySQL query that I can use to mass delete them until. real fix is put into place. Assume that might be a bandaid for @Scott Allen as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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