Increased spam on Vbulletin forums

[Jeremy]

Anyone else noticing an increased amount of automated spam on their Vbulletin forums?

Someone must be selling a bot out there.

[ClickItNow]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Anyone else noticing an increased amount of automated spam on their Vbulletin forums?

Someone must be selling a bot out there.

Shame no widespead IP banning group. A sort of free to sign up to service where if any member bans an IP for spamming, then that IP gets banned from registering a name at any other vbulletin site.

I suppose it would need quite a few safeguards though.

[Randy]

Yeah, I've got one forum which is getting 5 automated spam messages a day, sometimes more.

[CAZ]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Anyone else noticing an increased amount of automated spam on their Vbulletin forums?

Someone must be selling a bot out there.

I forget the name of it, but i got an email for it a while back...Wait...Forum Equalizer.
XXhttp://www.forumequalizer.com/XX

[Justin]

My Invision Board has been getting killed! I had to put it on Admin approve for all new accounts because I was getting 10 new spam accounts each day.

[PokerProp]

I'm getting tons also

[JohnV]

Does anyoen know what the deal with .cashette.com email address is. Are they spam or not? I seem to be getting rather a lot of signups lately with emails from that domain.

[Jeremy]

Most definatly spam. I actually had to go in and not allow any new registrations for cashette email addresses on a few boards.

[GoodKarmaKid]

If you upgrade to the latest version of Vbulletin 3.64 it will probably help as there is increased user signup security with the "captcha" box. Still won't stop the sweatshop catcha monkeys but should stop a lot of the automated stuff for a while.