spam

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...

Hi, I have new members complaining that they can't send url's in conversations. This is what I see in the spam trigger log. Izzie - Spam phrase matched (www) Moderated, Tuesday at 2:30 PM, Content: post Izzie - Spam phrase matched (www) Moderated, Tuesday at 2:28 PM, Content...

Hi, How to react to a spammer who change ip, for flood XenForo forums ? Ban IP is not efficiency because this user change ip and create multiple accounts (possibly with dynamic ip ? or vpn, proxy, etc.) Currently someone fun to remake itself accounts for us spammer. Do you have a solution...

not sure how it happened, but one of the spam accounts that got created on my forum can't be deleted. it's in the moderated users list, but when i tick the reject radio button and click process users i get a 'The requested user could not be found.' error. it's just this one particular user, all...

They seem to take the weekends off. It must be a regular job for these folks.

Hello guys, I'm having hardcore problems in my forum, people troll, spaming my nodes. I ban, ban ip, but this guys back. All days I need ban 4-10 accounts. Well, I only think in make a period like 3 months to new accounts post. Its possible? What you guys think? Any solution? If yes, how...

In response to: It would make sense to check if people are coming back to the conversation or not. Otherwise people will quickly mark it as spam, which if it occurs more often it easily leads to the website getting blacklisted as a spammer. After which emails stop arriving. With the awesome...

Hi, I'm not sure which it is, spammed to death, or hacked to death. I need help from experienced users who can guide me what to do next. I just disabled the board, so what should I do next? Thanks! Andre

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I'd like to add something to the spam management criteria that will trigger if someone has a large number of posts in a small timeframe. Is there an add-on that does this? We have a classifieds area that requires a certain postcount to use, and often scammers will quickly make a bunch of...

MOD checks new registrations and comments on the forum using a series of tests to detect spambots - blacklisted IP, EMAIL address, the presence of JavaScript, form submitting time, etc. We have developed anti-spam for WordPress that would provide maximum protection from spambots and you can...

If you like this add-on, please >>rate it<< Included in the [TAC] Total Anti-Spam Collection. Description Bots that assail your forum for malicious purposes, repeatedly interact with your forum in a sustained and resource draining manner. This could be as they scrape your content, or try to...

Description: Xenforo doesn't easily allow you to add large numbers of email addresses to ban (such as vB) and thus must be added one by one. Using this add-on removes the need to add each email address one by one by simply importing a .SQL file into your database. Total domains blocked: 1398...

Not sure what to make of this. I had a "member" sign up a moment ago, and it flagged as a spammer so went in to waiting approval. Doing my usual checks on it, I googled the username and found that they had been busy since last evening. The results came back with 7 forums at the top of the...

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If you like this add-on, please >>rate it<< Included in the [TAC] Total Anti-Spam Collection. Description Stop Human Spam by setting conditions for signatures / posts containing links / home page urls. Features Stops URLs in Profile Posts, Conversations, HomePage URL , About You (until...

If you like this add-on package, please >>rate it<< Description This is the complete collection of Anti-Spam Tools, a veritable fortress of all 7 spam eradicating add-ons. This package offers a 40% discount compared to buying each add-on individually. TAC Total Anti-Spam Collection includes...

If you like this add-on, please >> rate it << Included in the [TAC] Total Anti-Spam Collection. Description This add-on allows you to define any anti-spam API you want to use, to construct the rules applied to the API response, and define the logic for the rules. In addition to this offering...