Spam Users - Since a couple of days ....

Spam Users - Since a couple of days ....

there a new spam users, which all have a similar mail address and always open up a group and advertise movies.

Some of those users are set on approval others can fulfill the login routine and open the group.

Does anyone have an idea how to improve the spam protection? 

Confirmation emails of course.  Also, I use the Access Management module in the market and block countries that are the source of the spam accounts.  And there is the no access unless confirmed module to prevent any access to the site unless the person has confirmed their email address.   I am guessing you already have the tools in place to prevent bots from signing up.

My site is also getting spammed with similar movie crap. and i have email confirmation set up for the site.

as of right now the only way  i can access my site is from hot spotting from my cell phone. for some reason  my access from my home internet is failing to connect.

Im also getting spammed. I have posted this today

Unless Boonex has made recent changes to the code, members that have not confirmed their email still have some access to the site.  If you want to see if there is a relationship here; join your site and don't confirm your email address and see what you can and can not do on the site.

From what I can see, the only sure-fire way around this is to set new users by invitation only. At least you can choose who joins.

If that's too harsh, you can make the core changes below, but you will still have to set the moderation properties in the admin panel to something controllable. Here's my settings (attachment).

Then you will need to ensure that non members can't see a thing. NOTHING. Use your splash page to let them see what the site is about.

Unfortunately Dolphin allows non members to see too much, so you will need to make these core changes offered in a free mod by AntonLV

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This is from a previous post I made:

I wish to thank AntonLV for supplying this FREE routine that fixes everything:

https://www.boonex.com/m/Mandatory_Confirmation

What happens now:

• The person signs up and is advised an email has been sent.
• They can only see the original home page for prospective members.
• If they try to log in, they're told their password is invalid. (Previously, they could log in and see their Profile, Photos and Videos home pages with thumbnails.)
• The person is listed as an unconfirmed member in the admin panel.
• When the person confirms their email address, the receive a "Please Wait" email. 
• Admin is shown that the person has confirmed their email and can approve the profile.
• The person receives an email stating that their profile has been accepted.
• They can now log on and see stuff for the FIRST TIME!

These easy changes to four(4) core files take about five minutes and they vastly improve the security of the site All I can say is "Thanks Anton!"
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You will still get spam attacks but at least you can evaluate the email address and decide if it's fake.

I'm getting a few from addresses like io1.a.12.c@gmail.com and their user name and name usually starts with "A" to put them at the top of the list. No sane person has an email like that so just delete their join request. In my case, none have returned.

Good luck. The mods are worth the trouble and please thank Anton.

I now had SPAM in the FEEDBACK module, posted with the ADMIN account? Anyone an idea if the were able to really do this as ADMIN or if it only seemed as if they did it as admin? 

I have a lot of spam members as well, even I have the captcha in the registration page. Anyone knows how to update to the latest captcha version? The current one seems to be useless :(

I have a lot of spam members as well, even I have the captcha in the registration page. Anyone knows how to update to the latest captcha version? The current one seems to be useless :(

Same here.

The spammer is someone that keeps joining my site and posting unwanted links in the forum. I have tried a few different measures to stop them but they always find their way around them and always come back.

They are making it past my recaptcha and confirming their profiles.

If I block their IP address they come back with a new one.

Then if I block the range of IP addresses they will find another range to exploit.

If I block their country they find a new country.

They have even started joining from countries that I have blocked.

They seem to like using email addresses from the domains doanart.com and binka.me

Not really sure what else I can do.

Any suggestions?

Our website also has some spam users, But spammers can only be registered manually, use their hands only ! can not use the BOT automatic registration program. absolute !

Spam users of the BOT program is absolutely impossible to identify that kind of picture captcha  But the normal human can easily read the content and hint.

Please go to our website to register an account, you will see a very special captcha.

Please read my post above and hopefully save yourselves a lot of headaches.

I've had two (2) spammers from the same source, both were asked to submit email confirmation and I could easily see that they were fake. I just deleted them and they haven't been back.

I also use Modzzz' Admin Notifier, but I'm not sure if it's this mod or Dolphin itself that notifies me. Who cares!

The bottom line is, these people can't get to the site because their applications are deleted before they're given access.

Your choice.

 I think you might have the spam tools set wrong. Can you post some screenshots of these settings like I have?

From few weeks, I have many many problems from new spam users with censored.com email domain... (eg. berylchun@dl.consored.com). Source IP are different and it's impossibile to use IP blacklist.

My DNS blocklist config is identical to @newton27 one, exept for Askimet (disabled)...

Is it possible at least to prevent to a new member (not activated from admin) from uploading his foto/avatar?