Title: Registration Spam
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Registration Spam

 *  Resolved [3pennyprophet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3pennyprophet/)
 * (@3pennyprophet)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/registration-spam/)
 * I’ve read through a bunch of other forum threads that deal with similar problems,
   but I don’t think I’ve identified an exact similar issue to what I’m experiencing.
 * I require people to register to comment, mainly because I’m trying to build a
   user database that I can communicate with for ever expanding projects and some
   e-business stuff. Between that and Akismet, I’ve managed to keep comment spam
   to zero.
 * However, I’ve recently noticed a lot of spam registrations. I”m currently using
   the ‘Register-plus’ plugin from skullbit ([http://skullbit.com/](http://skullbit.com/))
   for the registration page. Now, on this page, I require a first name, a last 
   name, email, and a little checkbox that says ‘I am human’. I was about to go 
   through the process of adding some challenge questions, when I noticed that it
   appears these registrations are bypassing this plugin somehow. They don’t come
   with a first name or last name, they don’t have to go through the verification
   process – they just appear. And the websites are invariably the same ones that
   the ‘Facebook Virus’ were – the one with the fake video (I’m on a mac, so I’m
   unaffected).
 * If anyone has any ideas on how they’re getting through, or how to stop them, 
   please, let me know.
 * Thanks.
 * [http://noreasoncomics.com](http://noreasoncomics.com)

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 *  Thread Starter [3pennyprophet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3pennyprophet/)
 * (@3pennyprophet)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/registration-spam/#post-853881)
 * I figured it out.
 * I forgot about the BBpress installation, which was how they were getting through.
   Simply adding an htaccess redirect on bbpress’s registration sending it to wordpress’s
   has solved that problem. I strongly reccomend ‘Registration Plus’ as a plugin.

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## Tags

 * [bypass](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bypass/)
 * [Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/registration/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [3pennyprophet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3pennyprophet/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/registration-spam/#post-853881)
 * Status: resolved

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