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Does Invision Spam Defense look up emails in the stopforumspam.com database?

I regularly detect spammers who post on my forum, and when I look them up stopforumspam.com I find records for their email that predate that user's registration with that email address on on our forum. 

Here's a new user who successfully registered just 1 hour ago: 

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She posted just now in a topic that is only 3 hours old. 

I found entries going back May 23rd on stopforumspam.com

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I looked at the Defense Logs and that last user had a response "1". 

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54 minutes ago, David N. said:

when I look them up stopforumspam.com I find records for their email

The same for me, but my moderators look at the cleantalk.org. 

As a side note: this is not a great issue for us, though. The number of not detected spammers is fairly small. I just wanted to mention that there are indeed email addresses with a spam history (according to cleantalk) that pass through SpamDefence with score 1.

I'm still very satisfied with how SpamDefence protects us. 🥰

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I'm not going to go into the specifics of how the system works, but it does use data from many sources to determine the outcome. If something gets through, you've done the right thing by flagging the member as a spammer.

As a customer with a Cloud plan, you can also enable extra spam prevention options in your AdminCP (System > Smart Community > Spam Analysis). You can find out more information about this near the bottom of this blog: 

 

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