Defeating the scammers..

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Defeating the scammers..

Postby Stifull » Fri Dec 21, 2018 2:24 pm

Couldn't help but notice the majority of posts in the last few days have been porn site scammers. We had the same problem on another club site that uses this format and the only thing that seems to stop them is to BAN certain IP addresses.. That stops them in their tracks...I am trying to get a list of banned IP addys to be proactive...Will pass them on if I can get the list...
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Re: Defeating the scammers..

Postby bigBADbenny » Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:57 am

Pm Ric, that sounds like good advice to preserve this temple of knowledge...

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Cos’s you’re dead on, this is a most wonderfully moderated forum :good:
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Re: Defeating the scammers..

Postby Ric » Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:19 pm

I've deleted all those fake members.
They all have different IP addresses, spread out over many IP ranges, so there's no easy way to block them that way.
I have blocked a lot of the email domains that are commonly used by them.
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Re: Defeating the scammers..

Postby bigBADbenny » Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:21 pm

Thanks, Ric :good:
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