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Rogue
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Re: fake accounts

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Take a look... There are *thousands* of fake accounts registered:

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/memberlist ... SC&start=0
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Re: fake accounts

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Rogue wrote:Take a look... There are *thousands* of fake accounts registered:

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/memberlist ... SC&start=0


The memberlist shows inactive members as well. So all the ones that joined yesterday afternoon or today will feature in that list, but be unable to post since we now have manual account activation.

The problem is the 20,000 fake accounts registered before yesterday :(
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Re: fake accounts

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Oh frick.. that is going to take ages to sort out. [-(
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Re: fake accounts

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Don't worry, I have a cunning plan...
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Re: fake accounts

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toxo wrote:Don't worry, I have a cunning plan...


Delete everything and start again? :lol:
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Limeymk1 wrote:
toxo wrote:Don't worry, I have a cunning plan...


Delete everything and start again? :lol:



does it involve ninjas... If it involves ninjas i'm up for it. :rambo:
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Re: fake accounts

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I reckon I've nailed this spam thing now. If someone tries to register with an email address that's a known spam account (according to stopforumspam.com's list) they get:

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instead of being able to register. I've seen no approval emails since putting this in place (as opposed to 1 new account every 10 minutes before), but I have been able to register a test account just fine using a proper email address.

I've also written a script to test the email address of each registered user against the same database, and disable the account if it finds a match.

Watch this space :thumleft:
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Re: fake accounts

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Funniest sentence I've read in a long time:

"No accidentalties were appear"
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Re: fake accounts

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It is getting annoying, never seen so much spam!
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Ive just reported another one
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Re: fake accounts

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Just clearing out all the accounts John's script has identified as using email accounts known to be in use with spammers.
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