spammers from China

[galaxyAbstractor]

Ok I am sorry for this, but I want to ask for help with spammers.

Recently, I have got 10 - 20+ spammers from china. They all are trying to advertise child-porn, and I don't want to get into trouble because of them.

To stop it, I am thinking of IP banning china from my site, do you think there is a better way of stopping the spam instead of IP banning china?

 

[tittat]

I will recommend you to use Akismet plugins.
Also get updated with latest spammers here http://www.stopforumspam.com

 

[Smith6612]

There's been a lot of spam originating from China lately. It started peaking around this summer around the time of the Olympics. I've been sending my ISP mail to my home Linux router/box which is providing me this information. Otherwise, it certainly sounds like some sort of filtering solution is going to be needed.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

I will recommend you to use Akismet plugins.
Also get updated with latest spammers here http://www.stopforumspam.com

I tried adding the sql thing to phpBB, but it wont run :/. And isn't askimet for wordpress?

 

[kkenny]

China spam has started peaking around the Olympics because China lifted it's ban on over 90% of the websites around the world. I am not entirely sure that when the Olympics are over, Chinese people have put back on their strict internet policy.

Could somewhat relate to increasing spam from Chin a.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

I just read in the news that if you get addicted to internet in China, it's classed as a clinical disease. So they gonna put restrictions on it or something...

 

[Starshine]

An IP ban would probably help solve a lot of it. You could, if you wanted to take the time, is to find the IP / address responsible and forward the information to the offenders provider / ISP, then block the domain / e-mail / IP.

It may get someone involved, instead of just blocking them, getting it to stop altogether is the ultimate goal.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

An IP ban would probably help solve a lot of it. You could, if you wanted to take the time, is to find the IP / address responsible and forward the information to the offenders provider / ISP, then block the domain / e-mail / IP.

It may get someone involved, instead of just blocking them, getting it to stop altogether is the ultimate goal.

Well, I used to do that, but the ISP's always replies me that they don't care

 

[balaji2u]

i too have problems with chinese spammers ........

 

[Jordan C]

If I were you, I would just ban the spammers IP's. Can guests post?

Making it so that users have to register always makes things easier.

 

[Macaws]

ha. You think thats bad? I got spammers from hungary putting bad pictures and links. I just gave the website address of my site to the principal at my school. That was pretty bad.

 

[kkenny]

Trust me, Chinese Spammers on your website is worse
They find loopholes and EVERYTHING.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

Trust me, Chinese Spammers on your website is worse
They find loopholes and EVERYTHING.

Yeh they seem to start using GMail and proxys now, because I got a user spamming same pictures form the netherlands already.

 

[Macaws]

edit the activation settings in your forum. Make it so you have to activate accounts.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

edit the activation settings in your forum. Make it so you have to activate accounts.

Already done...

 

[mattura]

Maybe you can add CAPTCHAs?

 

[Zangetsu]

hmm i dont think thats a good idea it would be better to add the ip's to your ban list from http://www.stopforumspam.com like tittat suggested then to ban a whole country but thats just my opinion

 

[scottnj]

Maybe you can add CAPTCHAs?

You mean like verification numbers/letters. I don't know if it is botting or not, but it might help to use antibot images to prevent this.

Or make like a stupid little question with an obvious answer, but put it in English and make it reject them if they get it wrong.

 

[Macaws]

Unless it's a spam BOT, captchas won't do much.
Edit:
News:

Vislispantawl (user) appears to be a spammer. His website link redirects to adult friend finder.

 

[Jordan C]

ha. You think thats bad? I got spammers from hungary putting bad pictures and links. I just gave the website address of my site to the principal at my school. That was pretty bad.

I feel sorry for you.

As for me, I don't get enough visitors to even be hit by the spammers, when I do, I'm sure I'll catch on fast.