What do you do with daily spam?

[Robert9]

Every day, I get two new registrations with names like Itfvgrx, Jgds, Hgfvbgcc, Gzhvccb, Ggff, Hgtff, Jhcdxc; and they always use Hotmail addresses. I wanted to block Hotmail for a few days, but it didn’t seem to work. I need to take another look at it.

Do we have an add-on that can handle this, something like:If this crap comes in again, shut down the registration.

Sure, I can click it away twice a day, but who has the patience for that?

 

[duderuud]

X

Signup abuse detection and blocking

Nov 20, 2018

Provides a toolkit to reduce signup spam

• Xon
• Add-ons [2.x]

 

[javakhir]

I ban all ip addresses. if you want, can share them

 

[Robert9]

I have the Abuse Add-on, but I don't see where I can set something for a specific fixed IP. It seems like this is a troll who registers a few accounts daily during office hours between 10 AM and 6 PM. He doesn't care if I allow, reject, or delete him—he just keeps going. He apparently has a fixed IP and a connection with Vodafone; if it's not spoofed, he should be traceable.

I'd prefer to send him a message.

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^84\.61\.251\.74$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/warn/a.txt$
RewriteRule ^.*$ /warn/a.txt [R=302,L]

 

[javakhir]

does not help, they use vpn, tor, proxy ips to spam.

 

[Saarbruecken]

Enable JS Challenge in Cloudflare WAF for URI Path /register and /login and your problem should be solved. It's included in their free plan.

 

[whynot]

He doesn't care if I allow, reject, or delete him—he just keeps going. He apparently has a fixed IP and a connection with Vodafone;

Ban that IP in the ACP.

 

[Robert9]

=> #4;

 

[⭐ Alex ⭐]

Registration Spaminator https://xenforo.com/community/resou...-spaminator-stop-spam-bot-registrations.7410/ takes care of it.

Every once in a while I get a thread like this: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/what-is-this-a-meme-or-a-penetration-test.224738/

But the spam phrase filter catches it before they can post it.

Banning IP ranges or email domains is nonsense. That's like closing a road because some criminals use it, but the regular law abiding citizens can no longer use it either.

 

[⭐ Alex ⭐]

He apparently has a fixed IP

Then xenforo's built in spam cleaner with the IP ban option enabled would take care of them.

 

[GW2]

There are spam prevention suggestions on these threads:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/spam-and-manually-approving-registrations.208345/#post-1638568

Using the add-ons I mentioned in this thread, https://xenforo.com/community/threads/spam-is-out-of-control.212418/#post-1615209
I rarely, if ever, see a spammer.