how to avoid spammer in phpbb

Hello guys,

I run a small forums, but i have always receive spammy registar even thought I turn on the CAPCHA.

Is there any way to stop spammer from register? The rate of registration is like 10 per days.

 

There are several ways of doing this. A quick search on Google should be able to get you some methods of doing it such as putting in an anti-bot question.

I have stopped the vast majority of bots (used to get around 10 per day) by adding in a few little mods myself. Some of these include removing the website fields etc from my form and making it fail if anything is inserted (method of stopping some remote registrations). A value is inserted into a hidden field and checked upon submission and fails if it isn't a certain value.

Also, I blocked numerous email addresses like: '*[at]cashette.com', and anything ending with [at]ru. Now I only get on occasions 1 per day, sometimes more, other times none at all for upto a week. At that frequency they are really easy to delete.

 

thanks m8. it's great suggestion . I'm in canberra. Pretty near to sydny eh.

 

No worries, good luck with preventing them.

Maybe this might help ya:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=383305&highlight=bot

 

im using the Textual Confirmation Mod and it has been able to block 95% of spam registrations in the site.

 

That looks pretty nice, I think i'll try that for myself and see how it works!