Topic: Buddypress Spam · BuddyPress.org

Buddypress Spam

@jamesyeah

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

Hey,

I have seen this talked about here before, it is becoming a serious problem for me, I’m getting around 20 fake account signups a day, all of the same format. They look like this:

username: ernestforeman1955

email: ernestforeman1955@eusermail.com

name: Ernest Foreman

about: 4QIqzqoBHhr

I have both the latest versions of SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam and Akismet, all on the latest version of Buddypress and WordPress MU.

This is becoming an epidemic and a serious problem for many Buddypress sites, any suggestions as to how we can work to stop it?

James

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@bpisimone

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

Haven’t tested this yet, but this might work:

http://buddypress.webdevstudios.com/blog/2009/11/13/buddypress-registration-options/

@xevo

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

They should just use activation mail again, works the best.

There already exists a topic concerning these spam sign-ups. Haven’t had any problem with this yet, but that’s most likely because I have my wpmu/buddypress/bbpress in dutch..

@apeatling

Keymaster

15 years, 11 months ago

Also – make sure you are marking the users as spam not deleting them. This will block the username/email from logging in and/or signing up again.

@xevo

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

Andy, the username/email gets randomly made with every signup, so that won’t work.

Maybe this’ll help too: http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/03/16/the-perishable-press-4g-blacklist/

@mlovelock

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

Would be good if you could post ideas and solutions here too: https://buddypress.org/groups/fighting-spam-splogs

There’s already a few plugins etc mentioned there that might help you out too.

@stwc

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

I have had total cessation for the last two weeks without using plugins, using the procedure I outlined here.

@stripedsquirrel

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

I just tried that as I am out of alternatives…

Just noticed when testing the new signup slug that the user gets an email with the following text:

“You can log in to the administrator account with the following information:

Username: test

Password: bd36dc14

Login Here: http://test.biketravellers.com/wp-login.php”

? : Why does the user get a random password sent as he alreaady chose a non-random one? This random one does not work by the way.

Is this a result of the spam procedures or a regular bug?

Cheers, Bike

@jamesyeah

Participant

15 years, 10 months ago

Since using th new 1.2 beta theme I havnt had a single spam signup!

@apeatling

Keymaster

15 years, 10 months ago

Probably because the spammers don’t recognize it as BuddyPress yet, don’t expect that to last long.

@fouad_pookeo

Member

15 years, 10 months ago

Thank you!

Here is a modified re-Captcha to work with BuddyPress.

Hope this will help

http://team.pookeo.net/2009/12/22/re-captcha-for-buddypress/