What do you see under the Spam Defense tab?

The Contact Us verification is a setting under ACP > Settings > Contact Us.

1 minute ago, Matt said:

What do you see under the Spam Defense tab?

My bad. I see the Action to take for disposable emails. I also see the Require guests to verify their email? in Contact Us settings.

I can't find the Geolocation Settings tab on the Spam Prevention page.

Do you have the Invision Community Geolocation service enabled (and an active license key)? (ACP > Integrations)

1 minute ago, Matt said:

Do you have the Invision Community Geolocation service enabled

Yes, it's enabled:

 

3 minutes ago, Matt said:

(and an active license key)? (ACP > Integrations)

Do you mean the License Key? Sure. I don't see any option to enter the license key in Integrations for the Geo.

@Matt, got it.

Registration was disabled as it is a test site. Working now. Thanks.

Do you have registrations set to disabled or redirect elsewhere?

1 minute ago, Matt said:

Do you have registrations set to disabled or redirect elsewhere?

Replied above. 👍

Ah, I see it. Thanks.

On 8/23/2023 at 9:46 AM, jaeitee said:

Excellent.

Spam via the Contact form gets to the point you start ignoring the emails due to the volume.

How can I activate this feature?

2 hours ago, blacknight said:

How can I activate this feature?

Its not clear what you mean here. Are you referring to the email validation or something else? If it's the email validation, type contact into the search bar at the top of your admin CP, then click on contact us first in the list 🙂 

On 8/16/2023 at 10:23 PM, Ryan Ashbrook said:

We have added an extra option to our spam defense system to filter users registering with throwaway disposable emails, which are often used by spammers to bypass email validation.

Would it be possible to update this to include verification of all email address changes? Not just verification on registration.

It is common for accounts to be registered with a throwaway email (e.g. Gmail) account and after change the email to a disposable address...

Ted.

On 8/16/2023 at 10:23 AM, Ryan Ashbrook said:

Disposable Email Filtering

 

This is awesome , thank you 🙂  

is there a log to see which accounts were blocked from registering based on this filter or not?

 

2 minutes ago, ntxpla said:

This is awesome , thank you 🙂  

is there a log to see which accounts were blocked from registering based on this filter or not?

 

If a user attempts to register and is held for moderation, admin approval, or banned, then it will be noted as the reason in that accounts member history for both Disposable Emails and Geolocation filtering.

Hi, the geolocation block is only at a country level (really broad block).  Can we narrow that down at all?  For countries like India (with lots of spam attacks) this would block a few Billion legitimate people.

On 9/8/2023 at 10:33 PM, Fast Lane! said:

Hi, the geolocation block is only at a country level (really broad block).  Can we narrow that down at all?  For countries like India (with lots of spam attacks) this would block a few Billion legitimate people.

The problem is that when you get beyond the country level, the accuracy of identifying where users are coming from literally craters. I work for a large CDN that bases its business on knowing where users are coming from and I can tell you it’s HARD. The databases (especially free ones) out there are essentially trash and useless. 

Instead of blocking countries using Geolocation Services, can only allow the US to be allowed?  One of my sites is for my neighborhood HOA.  There will only be members from my neighborhood.

22 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

Instead of blocking countries using Geolocation Services, can only allow the US to be allowed?  One of my sites is for my neighborhood HOA.  There will only be members from my neighborhood.

The only way in which to do that at present would be to block every other country

Hello,

 

I have blocked South Africa as a lot of spammer are currently registering from that country on my forum. But yet, some spammers connecting with a South African IP are able to register on my forum. Why is that? How can it be fixed? Thank you!

6 hours ago, Balto said:

Hello,

 

I have blocked South Africa as a lot of spammer are currently registering from that country on my forum. But yet, some spammers connecting with a South African IP are able to register on my forum. Why is that? How can it be fixed? Thank you!

Same on India. 

Do you have some IPs you can share that I can check this with?

22 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

The only way in which to do that at present would be to block every other country

So, I tried to add a country, it doesn't appear to do anything.

Take a look here.

https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/20732203?key=a642b1348d0449301b5ddf8b645a5a49

2 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

So, I tried to add a country, it doesn't appear to do anything.

Take a look here.

https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/20732203?key=a642b1348d0449301b5ddf8b645a5a49

Sorry its not actually clear what you are showing me there. You appear to have added Afghanistan then saved.

38 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Sorry its not actually clear what you are showing me there. You appear to have added Afghanistan then saved.

Am I able to see what countries I've blocked?  In that example, I don't see Afghanistan on a list of blocked countries AND it's still in the dropdown to try to list.

3 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

Am I able to see what countries I've blocked?  In that example, I don't see Afghanistan on a list of blocked countries AND it's still in the dropdown to try to list.

You would see your settings in the ACP -> Spam Prevention -> Geolocation Settings:

1 minute ago, Jim M said:

You would see your settings in the ACP -> Spam Prevention -> Geolocation Settings:

Ugh, I was doing it all wrong.  It was not intuitive.  I thought I simply clicked save and it would populate a list.  I needed to click Add.

User error.

This will take a LONG time to add all countries.