tapaga replied to the thread
Bot Spamers
I've been suffering this on all my PHP Fusion sites, even one that doesn't have a credit to PHP Fusion on the bottom of the page.
However, I have some observations to make about this spamming which may help provide a solution:
-100% of the spam comes from members registered at a .info address, but none of my legitimate members have .info addresses. If there's a way to block all registrations using a .info email address, that would kill all of the current spam registrations. I would love to see this feature available, it would be quick and easy and end (until they use a different TLD) all the spam.
-If you set the membership to be admin approved, the spammers never get through because they're always something in the form name11111 and very easy to spot.
-The domain of a spammer's email address looks like it's fake and autogenerated, but it isn't. All of the domains used by the spammer are real, you can check them on a WHOIS service. One of them I checked was registered to "Mike Tyson Boxer" so they've clearly faked the name when registering the domains. The links in the spammers' actual spam are often hosted by these domains as well.
If you add that domain to the blacklist it will prevent any more registrations from that domain. If the number of domains run by the spammers is small, we could assemble a list of spammer domains on here and people could preemptively block them on their blacklists.
Some domains have been reused by spammers on different sites before I blocked them, which suggests the number of domains they own is limited.
Here's all the domains I've spotted so far:
aacwmrzb.info
cwwsjxsk.info
ftajpqsj.info
hpfnro.info
ijzezd.info
jaqois.info
kspdtd.info
ktimpwi.info
kxqvtjv.info
mrfcju.info
npqisc.info
pqiiip.info
uxvvlhtw.info
vflnesac.info
vjzaar.info
wzllgqv.info
ydsqdiyf.info
zbzdpmss.info
zfkvtrs.info
1 Jul 2007 at 01:04 AM