Title: Strange users
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Strange users

 *  [flipnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flipnet/)
 * (@flipnet)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-users/)
 * Hi,
 * I have the following problem. Since a few days i have random users without roles
   popping up in my user list. This are usualy random user names but sometimes user
   names that refer to a website.
 * Has anyone encountered this problem before and more importantly how can it be
   solved?
 * Regards,
 * Erwin

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 *  [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * (@ericmann)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-users/#post-1168878)
 * Follow these two steps:
    1) Delete the users 2) Turn off user registration on
   your blog
 * If you still want people to be able to create accounts, add a Captcha plug-in
   to prevent bots from creating random users on your blog.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-users/#post-1168879)
 * Captchas aren’t worth the effort. Most can be broken pretty easily.
 * [http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/06/breaking-captchas/](http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/06/breaking-captchas/)
 *  Thread Starter [flipnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flipnet/)
 * (@flipnet)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-users/#post-1169004)
 * A the thing was that the registration was disabled. Unfortunantly the blog is
   broken now :p need reinstall . Thanks for the reply though
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-users/#post-1169005)
 * flipnet, what site are you refferring to?
 * [http://josephsmarr.com](http://josephsmarr.com) <– is THAT it?
 * thats running version 2.0.7
 * and needs to upgraded after someone making sure whats there is clean.

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