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So I'm wondering,

have any of you who are running phpBB, noticed a new increase in bogus users trying to subscribe?

I've been getting about one a day now. Since I have subscriptions set to "admin only" authorization, I get an email telling me somone it signing up. Usually, it's a pretty bogus name and when I check the sign-up details, there is -always- a website link to nasty sites somewhere.

I just check the box to delete user and submit, which removes them.

I -had- made some changes due to things noted here on this BBS, but those efforts appear to be no good anymore.

Any new clues and is anyone else experiencing this?

PS,

BIO, it looks like the -same- users are subscribed to your board. Dude, the last name currently registered, is the -same- one I just kicked.

In the words of Foghorn Leghorn. . . "pay attention son, I'm talkin' to ya'"

That's been an ongoing issue.

The best way to deal with it is to ban their domain (if they use it as their emal address). I just banned *@minelab.ru for that last monkey.

Bio let me delete my first user today too.

Evil is good!

The one I'm dealing with is still MT spammers.

I should move to type pad, but I'm LAAAAAAZY. (Also, I have 3 MT sites going on my server).

My blacklist is HUGE now though.

I shitcanned my forum because of this.

Well, also because there was an average of .009 posts a day.

Yea, I know what you mean. Took off like a rocket the first week, now it's been quite for too long.

With wordpress, I wrote some extra crap into the code to make it difficult for spammers to post a comment.

Create a random number, pass that as a variable from the post page and have a checkbox with the same number. Rename the page that actually inserts the comment into the database and have it do some logic to verify that the number I passed matches the number that was associated with the checkbox. No match, no post.

Not exactly rocket science, but it works. The spammers use a program called Load-Dump to insert comments by directly attaching to the page that inserts it into the database. They don't actually look at your site.