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iFinancialAdviser
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I'm guessing that spammers have a list of forums to forum-spam. So, the longer you run your forum, the greater chance you get your forum placed in the list. Once that happens, you'd start seeing a bunch of forum spams like this forum.
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LucnetSolutions
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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I think it is really a pretty random thing. They are sent out and when they find a nibble, they keep coming back.
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altyfc
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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I have had spammers getting around the phpBB verification on one of our boards recently. We've put in an additional measure in order to control the situation.
Aaron
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iFinancialAdviser
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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We've put in an additional measure in order to control the situation.
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What did you do exactly?
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altyfc
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I think it was something on phpBBhacks.com - very simple, it is. It just says "are you human?" and you check a box in order to proceed. It might not fool the more intelligent spam bots but it should handle most.
Aaron
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