How do you stop spammers from other countries? (1.Viewing)

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Today was a big day for the board, we have officially hit the world stage.
I had to delete 41 registrations today and a number of spam messages on the board from foreign IP addresses.


So I implemented a very simple fix and within moments the registrations stopped.

How did I do this incredible feat of engineering you ask?


I made two security questions, answer one wrong and the other one comes up.


1. What province starts and ends with the letter "A" ?

2. What province starts and ends with the letter "O" ?


I had to think a little bit ouside of the box and come up with questions that typical Canadians could answer but most foreigners could not.
Now lets just hope they do not discover google :lol:


It stopped the bots or spammers cold in their tracks.


PLEASE DO NOT POST THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS
 
I think any question would halt them, as these spammers use 'bots that auto-register using known forum conventions.
 
MapleDots said:
You should only get it once per cookie session, so as long as the cookie is valid it should not ask again.

Post back here if it asks more than once.
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I posted a message but I don't see it actually posted.. I think maybe the spam question caused my post to be lost.

I hit submit on my post - that's when the spam question popped up. Then I never noticed that the message was posted. Not sure what exactly happened there.
 
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