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How can I stop spam bots on my phpBB forum?
I'm trying to get a website going, but:
On my main site page, I've been able to do a simple registration option where users have to answer a question of whether they are a spam bot or not and this is somewhat effective.
However, on the phpBB forum, I'm unable to stop spam accounts being created. It's up to 5000 in a few months. I've enabled the spam bot counter-measures with a 3D image verification but this isn't effective. Can someone give me instructions (e.g. a site) on how to best stop this? I'm inexperienced with phpBB and I'm struggling to find a way of setting up an add-in for this.
Secondly, how can I get rid of all the spam bots? I'm only able to delete users page by page which is not efficient. I can't delete the user groups as they're the default ones. Again, clear instructions would be helpful.
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- Steve BLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
You need to have some sort of account 'verification' procedure.
The obvious start is that the applicant must give a non-public provider email address (i.e. something other than a yahoo, gmail, hotmail etc) account to which you send a 'verification' key and they must enter the key in order to activate the account within X days or it's automatically deleted ..
Since you state 'B2B' that implies all your applicants will have Business names & registration numbers you can ask for .. and then 'look up' the name & no. on the Companies House site to check they are valid ..
You might also be able to do something with HTTPS (Certificates) = again something that a Business will have ...
