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This add-on can detect obscured spam in posts. There are two ACP options with which you can control the detection behavior: 1. Single characters words With this option you can restrict how many single character words the message may contain at most. This is to prevent spammers that type for...

We set moderation for the first 5 posts that contain spam words, including links. In general, it works very well. What we are seeing now is spammers who have worked this out, and so post gibberish for their first 5 posts, then post the advertising crap. Examples: I was wondering whether...

Hi there. Please, can someone do a plugin with that gives you an option to use Google Recaptcha + Questions at the same time in registration? I'm coming from other forum software and I have the same problem with spans on this, then I just enable the option Recapcha + questions and problem is...

This is a simple addon that check the emails entered by users during registration via the api of validator.pizza ipqualityscore.com Validator.pizza is by default and it doesn't require any api key but for using ipqualityscore you need to signup at their website and get the api key. What's...

One problem with spammers is spammers posting spam for the same domains for the same domains. If a users content is removed through the spam cleaner then the domains in that content should be added to spam phrases. This will prevent the domain from ever being successfully posted again and any...

Hi I was recently attacked by a number of spammers who added a load of rubbish onto my forum. For example:- http://phobiasupportforum.com/community/threads/new-khalid-american-teen-full-album-download-zip-torrent-leak-2017.1138/ I delete the thread but the URL still remains. I want to get...

So google aren't going to turn around and let people know how this works, they might not have to. I have always personal thought it has something to do with mouse movement, keypress, key touch, but most of the time, it might be simpler than that. This article explains it might have something to...

I predicted correctly that next version would have this in, see: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/foolbothoneypot-paid-stop-spam-bots-elegantly-with-a-custom-registration-page-honey-pots.37063/page-37#post-1129233 Can people let me know when the core honeypots start becoming ineffective...

I just go this email to mydomain@gmail.com Which is the email I have specified in the Hotmail Junk Email Reporting program. It looks like someone 'complained' about my weekly forum digest from @AndyB What does this mean exactly and what action should I take? The users registered in early...

Hi, I've a forum with a thousand users and massive daily registrations, recently our team migrate from vbulletin platform, we need a addon to reduce spam registrations through of sms or phone validation, can someone recommend one?

No download is needed :) ___ Do you need regular expression to validate user's email? Now you can do it, using a file edit :) Please backup the file before modifying You must edit this file : /library/XenForo/Helper/Email.php Find these lines : public static function...

Okay, so after carefully moderating my spam which is about 2-6 accounts that post links into threads once. I have found a pattern they all follow which allows me to assume they are bots or non-human. Here are the things 99% of them have in common: 1. List location as NY, New York, New York...

I use the SFS feature on my forum to help combat registration spam. However, I'd like to know if I could potentially disable username lookups? To me, the username function is not so good. If for example, someone chose the username 'Bob', they would likely be blocked as a spammer due to 'Bob'...

When a user marks email received from your site as 'spam' in their mail application, the majority of mail applications will then send a spam/abuse notification back to the sending server complaints process. For Amazon SES, they then send/forward an email to you of the spam/abuse complaint...

Hello! I'm having quite a lot of accounts created that do not actually post threads or post on other members threads but instead an account is created and a link usually pointing towards another site selling drugs or supplements you know the usual stuff you'd see if a spammer/bot would post in...

We've been hit over the last couple of weeks by over 300 registrations who send a single private message to a member inviting them to visit a bitly.com link to fill a survey or enter a promotion. I haven't clicked it, so I don't know where it goes. There are some attributes of the...

Most of the spammers we get are humans, most likely, and they appear to be from Pakistan. IPs typically resolve with this information: ISP: Pakistan Telecommuication company limited Organization: PTCL Continent: Asia State/Region: Punjab City: Faisalabad Latitude: 31.4215 (31° 25′ 17.40″...

Hi. From the past few weeks, I'm getting many spam Threads listed to moderate. All the listed threads are need to be moderated. There is no to bulk select/bulk delete option in the moderation! So, I have to select all the threads means for removal. Is there any effective solution to reduce...

Every day we are getting hit hard by spammers. The spam catcher rarely catches them. Another 20 or 30% are getting into the moderation queue. The rest are getting registered. I think I probably find and remove 5-10 a day on a pretty small forum. They are coming from India, Pakistan, the...

You may be aware of services like Amazon Mechanical Turk or Microworkers. These are crowdsourcing services that allow vendors to pay small amounts of money for the completion of tasks. These tasks often range from things like helping Google and Bing rank search results (human experience), and...