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Our boards have been overrun by Spammers. There's so much spam, I can't find all the users to flag them. How can I find the most recent registrations and flag them as spammers along with all their posts?

I have 207 spam pending registrations to delete.  These happened in the last two days. It's unbelievable. 

@Marc when a member changes their email address is it checked against any spam and disposable mailbox's, similar to a new account registration?

I see it happening where an account will be created using an email address, I assume, in an attempt to successfully register. Once the account is registered the email address is then changed to a spam/ disposable mail account...

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But what is the value in doing this?

Flag/ block as spammer and/ or notify Moderator/ Administrator. Prevent the member from using the new email address.

There was once a plugin/ application that checked emails and when changed did one or more of the above...

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But again... if they used a legit address, they're already approved and can post.  Why would they change their address if they're legitimately a spammer to something else?

I don't know why they do this, I can only describe what I have seen from past experience. My assumption; bypass sign up checks with a working email, change email with a disposable/ sacrificial address then post spam across the site. The account with disposable/ sacrificial email address are banned (and maybe sends a report to IPS Spam Defence?) as being a spammer...

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