Hi people. I want to ask , how it’s posible to stop spam from Africa , I have over 50 ads / day with spam accounts. How can stop this visits and accounts? And one more thing. All listings are reported like spam , I don’t know from who or why. Can anyone help me?

That can be complicated. Try to check geoip plugin for htaccess.
2nd issue can be that just bots are crawling all links including nofollow one.

What you mean geoip for htaccess?

Why not to google it?
https://fatcatservers.com/members/knowledgebase/999150/How-to-block-or-allow-countries-using-GeoIP-and-.htaccess.html

GeoIPEnable On
# Put countries to deny here     
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE CN DenyCountry 
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE KR DenyCountry 
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE KP DenyCountry 
 
Allow from all 
Deny from env=DenyCountry   
GeoIPEnable On
# Put countries to allow here     
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE US AllowCountry 
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE CA AllowCountry 
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE MX AllowCountry 
 
Deny from all 
Allow from env=AllowCountry   

NOW THIS IS MY .HTACCESS :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

GeoIPEnable On
# Put countries to deny here     
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE BJ DenyCountry 
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE NG DenyCountry 
SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE ZA DenyCountry 
 
Allow from all 
Deny from env=DenyCountry

it's ok?

Looks like you blocked access from 3 countries..if that is OK for you, then its ok.

If I let htaccess like that , my website don’t work anymore. It’s something wrong here 😞

@marian
That's your job to identify what code should be put there and make sure that plugin (htaccess plugin) is enabled.
This forum is not right place to discuss htaccess content and configuration.

@OP

Why don't you stop the abusive/unwanted country traffic at the edge before it hits your server? Server-side hacks can only do so much and you risk negatively impacting the performance of your stack.

Switch to Cloudflare and block countries, bots, user agents etc. with a couple of clicks.

@OP

Why don't you stop the abusive/unwanted country traffic at the edge before it hits your server? Server-side hacks can only do so much and you risk negatively impacting the performance of your stack.


Switch to Cloudflare and block countries, bots, user agents etc. with a couple of clicks.

I have cloudflare, but I don’t know what to do there 😞

Go to security > WAF > create firewall rule and block by country or continent .. see attached screenshot.

Cheers

Go to security > WAF > create firewall rule and block by country or continent .. see attached screenshot.

Cheers

Super . Tks a lot. I will try.

Go to security > WAF > create firewall rule and block by country or continent .. see attached screenshot.

Cheers

I created rules in cloudflare and no result. Again and again visits and spam listings from Africa 😣