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As of the last few weeks, Invisionize has been targeted by human spammers, trying to advertise various products. Whilst we are fighting these by deleting the posts and banning the members, some posts slip through our fingers.

We'd like to ask you to be vigilant about these posts and report them, so that a member of staff can come along and delete them.

Thanks

Are they human? Or did a human just pass the reCAPTCHA test for the bots?

According to my logs Bots have obviously find a way to bypass recaptcha.

+1

Either way, spammers are getting passed, and we need to combat them.

I'll call the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to combat them o.o

So is my gaming forum now getting stupid spammers, but bots... I think 2.3.6 will never be patched for these spammers.. IPS are now working ONLY on IPB3. I bet IPS will remove "board2_3_6" from the downloads area in Client Area, and only have IPB3 in it.

It will be a while before that happens, not to worry. Give them some time, the transition to IPB3 is massive, I'm surprised they are even handling it pretty well.

Ah, I guess your right Elad. Thanks.

Can always ban the IPs when a new human spammer or bot spammer registers.

They are more sophisticated than that, varying their IP and anything else we might track them by. I don't remember where I read that humans pass CAPTCHA tests for these bots at registration so even a challenge question could be defeat by a human...

The solution would be to code a mod which doesnt let them post links until they have X posts

There's a mod like this for 2.3 but not for 3.0 yet.

This would likely cause more errors, because the bot could be programmed to try its first post with a link, if rejected detect how many it needs and begin spamming without links until that number is met. You could have a user help register 100 bots in a day, each, say, requiring 20 posts to submit links within their posts, that's 2000 plus the ones they originally intended with links in them.

Spamming from companies or individuals who use a human to register are almost impossible to prevent, and its likely they will always be so.

For starters you would have to create IP Settings.
1. One account can be logged in with an IP at a time.
2. An IP Address cannot have more than one account unless otherwise added within the ACP (For testing etc)

Even then, they may use proxies or IP Rotators.

Well, the link solution works. They probably are not trained to handle that type of error response (even if they are, they wont be able to extract our custom error as the language is different and there will be no match). I'd say let's give it a try and see if they stop posting in my 'Moved to Mac OS X' topic all the time. (Google ranked it so high up)