7 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

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

I have already deleted all the spam users, in the next days I will post here some of them.

51 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

This will take a LONG time to add all countries.

Are you sure you want to add THAT MANY countries anyway? I suggest you to be careful with that, some "real" users from those countries would maybe like to register to your website and they would not be able to.

16 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

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

Here is a South African IP who avoided the block and was able to register and start spamming everywhere: 41.116.47.168

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Balto said:

Here is a South African IP who avoided the block and was able to register and start spamming everywhere: 41.116.47.168

 

 

 

 

Please can you let me know the member ID of that member? I can then take a look on your site

2 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Please can you let me know the member ID of that member? I can then take a look on your site

Member ID: 11512

Also member ID: 11520, who just registered few minutes ago to post hundreds of spam posts. IP: 197.184.181.0

 

14 hours ago, Balto said:

Are you sure you want to add THAT MANY countries anyway? I suggest you to be careful with that, some "real" users from those countries would maybe like to register to your website and they would not be able to.

It's a neighborhood HOA site.  The only allowed members live in this small community.  Are there other downsides to clocking all other countries?

54 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

It's a neighborhood HOA site.  The only allowed members live in this small community.  Are there other downsides to clocking all other countries?

You are trying to use spam prevention for access control which is not what it is design to do. You would be best doing this at a firewall or server level.

4 hours ago, Balto said:

Member ID: 11512

Also member ID: 11520, who just registered few minutes ago to post hundreds of spam posts. IP: 197.184.181.0

 

Most of the spam users who registered today are connecting from a banned country (South Africa and Uganda):

 

38 minutes ago, Balto said:

Most of the spam users who registered today are connecting from a banned country (South Africa and Uganda):

 

Ive created you a ticket so we can look closer at this for you

On 9/10/2023 at 8:05 PM, Randy Calvert said:

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. 

What about one level deeper?  Say the equivalent of a US state (CA for example).  Not sure the equivalent in India.  Anything would be helpful.  Blocking 1.4B people to ward off one spammer is extremely blunt.

 

 

On 9/14/2023 at 3:56 PM, Balto said:

Most of the spam users who registered today are connecting from a banned country (South Africa and Uganda):

 

same and 99% of spammers now is from India and some other countries.

Now its working good i think and have 0 spamers after weekend. 

 

On 9/17/2023 at 7:38 AM, Fast Lane! said:

What about one level deeper?  Say the equivalent of a US state (CA for example).  Not sure the equivalent in India.  Anything would be helpful.  Blocking 1.4B people to ward off one spammer is extremely blunt.

 

 

Unfortunately IP blocking quite simply doesnt have that level of accuracy. 

I love the addition BUT I wish you offered an option to either go the Blacklist route and select countries you want to blacklist OR whitelist route which you can select a country or countries to only allow access.

Its a great first step though.. maybe my suggestion might be added in the future.  Would make things a lot easier.

Just now rereading this as we get closer to the 4.7 upgrade.  

In the disposable email section, why this option:

"

• Register the account but immediately ban it"

What are the benefits of doing that?  Does it facilitate or automatically ban an email domain?

On 5/1/2024 at 7:57 PM, TracyIsland said:

Just now rereading this as we get closer to the 4.7 upgrade.  

In the disposable email section, why this option:

"

• Register the account but immediately ban it"

What are the benefits of doing that?  Does it facilitate or automatically ban an email domain?

If an account is already on the system, they wouldnt be able to register with that same account again, and it would also show them as logged in and banned unless they clear cache etc. Its just another facility to make it more inconvenient for spammers to spam on your community

I hope we see Cloudflare's Captcha added too.

You should use Cloudflare and set up his Firewall. You can easely block all South Africa, and from the start, before accessing any pages.

On 9/14/2023 at 3:52 PM, Charles said:

You are trying to use spam prevention for access control which is not what it is design to do. You would be best doing this at a firewall or server level.

I disagree.

I also have a local website that 99% of its users are from one country only.
I don't want to completely block other countries from accessing my website as viewers (this is also very bad for SEO), but I do want to prevent them from registering new accounts.