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officela

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Spam User Registration issue
« on: February 11, 2024, 10:34:09 AM »
since yesterday i am getting around 3-4 bot registrations per 10m ( i have enabled the google re-captcha plugin on registration page ).

It's bot 100%.....

any proposal how to deal with this since it can solve google re-captcha ?

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MB Themes

Re: Spam User Registration issue
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2024, 11:25:23 AM »
Check anti-spam plugin that can validate IP and email against spam database
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Re: Spam User Registration issue
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2024, 11:27:06 AM »
Did you enter ReCaptcha v2 Tickbox Api Key correctly?

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officela

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Re: Spam User Registration issue
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2024, 12:59:12 PM »
yes installed correctly ( double checked ).


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officela

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Re: Spam User Registration issue
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2024, 01:01:58 PM »
Check anti-spam plugin that can validate IP and email against spam database

yes, i have it enabled. and at the option: Mutliple account from same IP. - > i have Deny creating multiple accounts.

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BZNRuss

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Re: Spam User Registration issue
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2025, 05:53:47 PM »
I found this mod years ago that works well.  Most of my spammers use one name with no space.  eg: "JohnDoe" instead of "John Doe".

This mod catches 98%of them by preventing names without a space.


mysite\oc-includes\osclass\UserActions.php

Line 63 right after "   $input = $this->prepareData(true);
ADD

//-- spam code --
         $str = $input["s_name"];
         $pattern = "/\w+\s{1}\w+/";   // set up a regex to check for certain input reqruiments.
         $validname = 0;
         $validname = preg_match($pattern, $str);
         
         if ($validname == 0) {
            $flash_error .= _m('The name is not valid') . PHP_EOL;
            $error[] = 10;
         }
//-- end spam

Works like a champ.   


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MB Themes

Re: Spam User Registration issue
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2025, 08:09:00 AM »
It coukd work but dont forget to put some info to your registration page
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