Spammers!

[Owlsonline Admin]

Just had an influx of them, about 8 from various places, who keep getting past the hCaptcha. 

Is there anything else I can do..? Any helpful tips?

[Marc]

Have you increased the sensitivity in hCaptchas site itself? Also, do you have questions and answers in place? Unfortunately spam has indeed been somewhat of an issue lately

[Owlsonline Admin]

14 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Have you increased the sensitivity in hCaptchas site itself? Also, do you have questions and answers in place? Unfortunately spam has indeed been somewhat of an issue lately

The IP ban on the 'people' who are trying to spam is currently doing a good job. It's banned about 15 others since I posted. But I'll look at hCapta settings too

Thanks Marc, as always. Top stuff.

 

Edited June 21, 2023 by Owlsonline Admin

[Owlsonline Admin]

I've had 30 "people" register on our site today, it seems the IP and hCaptcha change is catching the majority but I've never seen an influx of spammers like this before at all!

[Randy Calvert]

It's happening across the board.  It's targeting all sorts of sites.  Not just IPB, but anything online where users can submit content.  

[Owlsonline Admin]

7 minutes ago, Randy Calvert said:

It's happening across the board.  It's targeting all sorts of sites.  Not just IPB, but anything online where users can submit content.  

Annoying! But in a weird way, glad it's not just us!

[Randy Calvert]

Just now, Owlsonline Admin said:

Annoying! But in a weird way, glad it's not just us!

If you have not already looked into it...  there is a 3rd party company called CleanTalk that has been a big help in reducing spam on my site as well.  

It's 12 bucks a year, and there are lots of ways of getting additional free time.  It's not perfect, but it catches a lot.  When combined with IPS anti-spam and hCaptcha, I only have 1-2 that get through a week with more than 400 attempts weekly.

[Matt]

We're working on an update to help combat this increased wave of spam.

[Owlsonline Admin]

10 hours ago, Matt said:

We're working on an update to help combat this increased wave of spam.

#ThingsYouLoveToRead

[Matt]

47 minutes ago, Owlsonline Admin said:

#ThingsYouLoveToRead

Unlike the final score at Hillsborough on a certain Thursday night in May, as a Posh fan. 😅

[Owlsonline Admin]

On 6/22/2023 at 8:14 PM, Matt said:

Unlike the final score at Hillsborough on a certain Thursday night in May, as a Posh fan. 😅

Hi Matt.... I was there, At the bottom of the 'C' in the stand opposite... 🤣

[Matt]

You had a great view to watch Dan Butler's penalty zoom over the stadium.

[Allen Bradford]

On 6/22/2023 at 4:25 AM, Matt said:

We're working on an update to help combat this increased wave of spam.

How’s this going? I’m suddenly getting hit with spam registrations as well. 

Edited July 10, 2023 by Allen Bradford

[Marc]

46 minutes ago, Allen Bradford said:

How’s this going? I’m suddenly getting hit with spam registrations as well. 

Please bear with us on any updates. Of course, we would need to write them first of all

[SeNioR-]

On 6/22/2023 at 10:25 AM, Matt said:

We're working on an update to help combat this increased wave of spam.

 

[Matt]

The project is well underway. Not firm ETA, but it's coming to v4, so you won't need to wait for v5.

[DawPi]

Matt, it will be available for Cloud only customers? Also - free of charge or…? 

Best regards. 

[Matt]

35 minutes ago, DawPi said:

Matt, it will be available for Cloud only customers? Also - free of charge or…? 

Best regards. 

Almost all functionality will be available to those with active licenses, certainly more than enough to combat the surge we've seen. We may add a little more algorithm-crunching stuff for cloud given access to AWS computing power and more room to swallow additional costs given cloud pricing. It's very much in progress, so we'll have news when everything has been completed.