How to stop these SPAMMERS?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by jawahar, Apr 9, 2009.

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  1. #1
    Hi..
    Listed below are some email ids of spammers.. Everyday my site receives some registrations from new sites and email id's and they post a spam article. As per my knowledge it is not automated posting, coz, i have few security measures taken.

    How do we identify the source and prevent this??


    Regs
    Jawahar
     
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  2. blog8491

    blog8491 Notable Member

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    What's the type of your web site? If it's is a blog, you can use an anti SPAM plugin. Otherwise you need to modify some advanced mechanism.
     
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  3. jawahar

    jawahar Active Member

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    Its not a blog.. Its an online tutorial website.. One can register and post articles.
     
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  4. mash240

    mash240 Active Member

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    Can you not just have a system where you have to approve things before they are aloud to go on your site?
     
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    bulletservice Well-Known Member

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    What is the URL of your website? :D Don't worry, I hate spam.
     
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    jhmattern Illustrious Member

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    Email addressed removed - under no circumstances may anyone distribute any kind of email list here.
     
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    geekos Well-Known Member

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    Just block the IP range of the spammer. If your site custom coded, they might have a exploit.
     
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    cheapez Active Member

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    If they are bot spammers (computers), here are a few things you can do:
    Add a good captcha (Graphic captchas are better, harder to read by bots).
    Change your form id, textfield ids, submit button id, ...
    Put your form in an iframe? (to hide it from bots but visible to human eyes ).

    If they are human spammer (they submit by hand) and if bot spammers:
    If people post an article, it need to approved by you first before it posted on the site.
    Spammers will get tire and leave your site.
     
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    venetsian Well-Known Member

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    Hi,

    I wrote this for content scrapers but this still works with some WP spammers. Make sure you put this into your index.php file before wordpress loads.

    here's the URL. Bad Bot blocker

    Make sure you fix the quotes because my WP changed them

    Cheers,

    Venetsian.
     
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