You love it!

[magician13134]

Have you installed some kind of spam protection? I set up a PHPBB3 forum about a week ago, and I have thousands of spam posts already! I have a CAPTCHA, but it doesn't seem to be working....

[Skunk Workz]

Have you installed some kind of spam protection? I set up a PHPBB3 forum about a week ago, and I have thousands of spam posts already! I have a CAPTCHA, but it doesn't seem to be working....

I run a number of PHPBB forums, and have successfully cut the spam bots off with this plugin (which is actually just a few edits):

http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php?i=misc&mode=display&contrib_id=10115

[adafruit]

actualyl what is sad is these people are registering by hand

[SiliconFarmer]

Could it be spambots using humans via a mechanical turk system to solve the captchas?

http://siliconvalleysleuth.co.uk/2007/10/amazon-mechanic.html

[adafruit]

not unlikely. they are also spamming in a strange way where they post an 'innocuous' note first
i think they follow it up with spam later or hope it gets buried and then they change the sig
they all seem to be coming from yahoo.in and gmail.com

[mwr]

In my experience, by the time I've gotten a spammer, their IP or email had already been listed at http://www.stopforumspam.com/. A phpbb3 mod to hook into their database is here.

Of course, you might already be using this, in which case, your spammers are more sophisticated than mine were.

[Amberwolf]

There's a new way of doing it now, which I just saw on this board. Seems stupid, but they are making what looks like a normal post, almost relevant to topic, then below that they have what looks like blank space but is actually a bunch of links to their spam sites that are text colored the same as the forum background.

These are a quotes of the ones I just reported:
[quote="rose2009"]Hi, your idea is very interesting , I really like it. Thanks a lot

[redacted]


[quote="jennyfifi"]Thanks for your sharing. Thanks for sharing this useful information. It's great.

[redacted]


(Mods feel free to delete the quoted text after you see it, if you need to)

[adafruit]

oh smart!
ok thanks for letting us know