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04-28-2009, 02:42 PM
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Weird emails signing up for forums
In the past couple weeks, I have gotten many weird emails signing up for my site. I was just wondering if anyone had seen these before, if there are just spam or something worse?
pauljkiggins@hotmail.com, fouffunjumb@googlemail.com, nogeinite@uastar.net, ugidfogs@gmail.com, rackflinciatt@gmail.com, fefefermaps@gmail.com, fsdfklsjflksf@gmail.com, polsofdswq@gmail.com, pioducciciesk@gmail.com, pioducciciesk@gmail.com, leila88@megapochta.cn, kath0benn@gmail.com, jifferkise@mail.ru, mpffdasd@gawab.com, eshka@megapochta.cn, oqmxwzeai@maillier.com, buylasikamag@medmail.info
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04-28-2009, 08:24 PM
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I also get them too, sometimes it's for the league Forum also
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04-28-2009, 08:28 PM
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They're probably just spam.
I've always found that the best way to prevent spammers (spammers have programs that can figure out CAPTCHA now), but not people legitimately interested in your forum, is to have your registration page ask them a question where the correct answer is required. It can be easy as asking what does 2 plus 2 equal or as difficult as a code that they have to get from you first. The CBL uses something inbetween by asking what year we started which should be pretty easy to find and if the person can't find the answer they can always ask us. We were getting dozens of signups a day with CAPTCHA, but none with this.
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04-29-2009, 10:44 PM
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That pauljkiggins hotmail one is a member of my online league. He has been having trouble signing onto my forums. I wonder if he has a virus on his machine. I'll let him know right away.
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04-30-2009, 01:40 PM
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You can use reCAPTCHA... it's a lot tougher for spambots to figure than standard captcha. The BCBL uses reCAPTCHA and spam sign-ups have completely gone. Zero. Nothing. We used to get 20-50 sign-ups a day.
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