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Hello.
Lately I’ve been getting lots of “users” wanting to “sign up” as members. They always seem to be coming from Russia, and they just…keep…coming.

How do I stop this?

Thanks!

I get the same sort of registrations too. Are they using mail.ru as their email address?

What do you envision happening? I don’t recall seeing this functionality, but I’ll check.

More than 90% of the bogus members’ email addresses have .ru in them. The rest have gmail.com. And the names they come up with are not what I would consider “normal” names.

I sent a question off to the dev team about developing an email blacklist or something similar.

Macker..

You can use the Blacklist module which allows partial matching on IPs, effectively giving you the ability to set a range, and you can also have User Banning giving you the ability to block certain email addresses from being used in registration.

Yes I’ve had a sudden influx of these too. Whilst we delete them pretty quickly, they’re persistent. I tried Mike Boyink’s suggestion of editing the standard “notify me text” on the comment template that they may be using to uncover spammable sites, it hasn’t worked.

I’m also using blacklist module.

Not sure if there is an easy solution - but they do seem to want to leave multiple urls, so perhaps we could introduce a setting that automatically puts the comment into moderation if there is an a href in it.

Thanks,

Robert

I’ve just discovered the comment spam extension (which at least limits the number of urls allowed), hopefully that will help, I’ve dropped the urls allowed to 1, as these pesky new spammers seem to be posting a bunch of links in the one comment.

Robert

Macker..

You can use the Blacklist module which allows partial matching on IPs, effectively giving you the ability to set a range, and you can also have User Banning giving you the ability to block certain email addresses from being used in registration.

OK, since Robert piped in on this too, I’ve added mail.ru to the blacklist, and I will keep track of others which may come in and add appropriately to these scumbags down. This should take care of that.

Thanks for your help Sue!

P.S.: Isn’t it ironic that I have a Russian proverb as my signature?

We’re struggling with this too.

I attempted to set up a ban rule like so:

*@*.ru

(accepting that we’d be banning any legit .ru email domains)

But it doesn’t seem to work. A test registration using email address of .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) still went through.

Am I getting the syntax wrong?

Not dead sure myself- any luck with *.ru ?

Ah, should have thought of trying that myself.

It works. Now you get “That email is not available” if you try to use it.

Thanks!

Glad to see you solved it, and closing this old thread 😊