Puzzled over spam

  • Resolved lilguy43uk

    (@lilguy43uk)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    I’m still getting several attempts at spamming and I don’t know how they are managing it.

    Their posts never get through as they are held in the mod Q so it’s not a problem, just an annoyance.

    I am running Aksimet, Stop Spammer Registration, TTC Stop Bot Registration, reCaptcha and WP Ban.
    Users must be logged in to comment and they must fill in their email address.

    All the attempts are on the same page which indicates a bot but all are from different IP addresses.

    How do they get through??

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    If users must be logged in, are the accounts being created?

    Thread Starter lilguy43uk

    (@lilguy43uk)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    No

    All user accounts have to be admin approved.

    Puzzling

    Thread Starter lilguy43uk

    (@lilguy43uk)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Should have said, the posters are not filling in an email address either.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Install Cookies for Comments. I suspect they’re hitting the page directly, though really that shouldn’t work if you have it set to logged in users only.

    Are you sure these aren’t ping backs?

    Thread Starter lilguy43uk

    (@lilguy43uk)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Cookies for Comments is installed. This is an example of what I am finding….

    Dean Graziosi
    rocksbottomblueprint.com/
    173.208.43.160
    Submitted on 2011/07/28 at 1:09 am

    Super Cheap Yankee Candles…

    […]we like to honor other sites on the web, even if they aren’t related to us, by linking to them. Below are some sites worth checking out[…]…

    Trawlers Lost at Sea (page it’s posted on)

    Thread Starter lilguy43uk

    (@lilguy43uk)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Just installed a trackback validation plugin. We’ll see if that stops ’em

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Ah, those are pingbacks (trackbacks, whatever) 🙂 NOT comments.

    Thread Starter lilguy43uk

    (@lilguy43uk)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Once you mentioned it out I could see that. Sometimes I need the obvious pointed out to me.

    Thanks Ipstenu, the validation plugin seems to have done the trick.

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