Gezz3D

Actually I just tested out creating a new member after re setting the user level to inactive but it seemed that the user could still post on the forum and do the same as a subscriber, so it may not stop these phantom users. I don’t have anything to protect against this.
I’ve looked at membership plugings briefly in the past but can’t remember if there is a membership level that could be utilised for this sort of thing.

DavidM – WPMU DEV wrote:

“Come to think of it, it sounds like maybe those are simply user accounts that haven’t been validated (ie. haven’t confirmed activation via email).
I’d have to say, it sounds like what’s occurring is you’re getting spammed.”
Hi David,
For some reason your replis are not showing up on the forum (at least at my end).
Yes, this is some kind of spamming. For the ‘users’ I do not get any e mail saying there has been a new member, just when there is a new member through buddypress.
Really I need something that has to go via me before anyone can be a member.
Cheers
Gezz

Hi David,
Yes it’s the standard WordPress users tab.
The new member shows up in the buddypress members page and the users they created show up in the wordpress user tab.
One odd thing is that every time someone does this they seem to make less and less users. The first time it happened there was about 300 ‘users’. This morning someone did it and there was only 2 new ‘users’.
If you go to;
http://northwoodhall.s3dsdesign.com/members
you’ll see a member called lucianmayes. They are one of the people who joined to set up these accounts. I’ve deleted the rest of them.
If you go to;
http://www.s3dsdesign.com/wp-prob.html
I did a screen print of the users list. The ones that have numbers are the ones created by the member ‘lucianmayes’.
Thanks for your help.
Gezz