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1. adamthedog
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Lately, I have been getting a lot of obvious bots signing up. Their usernames are random alpha-characters, and their email addresses, so far, have been [whatever]@[domain].info. Here's the latest, extra space removed:

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   New user registration on your blog [my blog]:
   Username: frkksptn
   E-mail: fkfxbsdpw@obdolbin.info
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   I've been deleting them on a case-by-case basis, but the rate of registrations is increasing. Are there any plans to add image verification (or something) to the registration process?

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   here is a plugin for combatting spammy emails during registration on a domain by domain basis. Note that you can block all .info domains if you like.

   http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/01/10/wp-deadbolt/

3. drmike
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Try this plugin:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/100049

   You may also want to review the Captcha Plugin page for anything else that you can try:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools#Captcha

   Please also remember that there's a lot of evidence that Captcha's don't work for a number of reasons (ie vision issues, broken proxies, machines can read them anyway, piss your visitors off, etc.)

   Good luck,
   -drmike

4. adamthedog
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks! I hope an "official" fix will make it into the works...

5. esta2com
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   you can download this hack of register-form with captcha. It is beta version! :)

   Example

   Download

6. dlo
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   The Sabre plugin is an appropriate answer to this issue.

   You can check it at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sabre

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