Support » Plugin: Register Plus Redux » Very strange SPAM from registration form.

  • Resolved Caleb

    (@cidesign)


    Hi, I am getting very strange SPAM from the WP registration form. I look at the users that are trying to register, and the names and emails are normal (they don’t look like SPAM).
    The weird thing is with the form fields that I added with this plugin (Register Plus Redux), like “Address”, and “City”, and “Phone Number” are all filled out with two capital letters (i.e. “AC” or “KL”).

    I have the captcha plugin installed and it should stop spam, but this spam isn’t like anything I have had before and I think it is your plugin that is causing this. Only the fields that I added with this plugin are being filled out like SPAM.

    Here is a Screenr to explain this better: http://www.screenr.com/zSSN

    Thanks,I appreciate any help you can give me.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/register-plus-redux/

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  • Plugin Author radiok

    (@radiok)

    What makes you think the plugin is causing these users to appear? I think you are just getting spammed, period. (Sidenote: I should revise my recommendations about captcha, I’m finding it less and less usefully daily. Spammers OCR is getting incredibly good.)

    Here is my current spam solution. I still get the odd spammy user, but this cut things down a bit.

    View post on imgur.com

    Try that out and tell me what you think of the results.

    Thread Starter Caleb

    (@cidesign)

    Sorry, I am not a developer. The only reason I thought it was your plugin is because the spammers were filling out the form fields weird that I added with your plugin. Now I think it is the Captcha plugin I am using. I went to their forms and can see that other people using that plugin are having the same problems.

    I am using WP-reCAPTCHA now (someone on the Captcha forms said it works better).

    Again sorry for thinking it was your plugin. Register Plus Redux works great!

    Plugin Author radiok

    (@radiok)

    No offense taken, but I still wouldn’t blame any particular plugin. The spammers are out there hunting us all down regardless of what we implement on our sites. I think what you are seeing is that the spam software being used to work around WP-reCAPTCHA (which is my personal pick as a captcha plugin) generally fills out all other fields with random two letter combos. You can change your captcha but you’ll still be getting attacked regularly, you just need to determine the best solution for you. Again, the solution I’ve provided MAY slow down your spam rate for a small amount of time, but it’s only a matter of time until the spam software interprets text based questions and figured out how to answer them.

    Thread Starter Caleb

    (@cidesign)

    Ok, thanks!

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