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Defeating Spammers!

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Carbo

Diamond Member
I've got a persistent one on my board, and she is getting under my skin. This individual registered and then proceeded to advertise her services all over my forums. I deleted the offending posts and let it be, at first. Well, she came back and plastered her ads all over once again. This time I deleted her account and went into the ban filters. Banned her name, her email address, and her IP address. (BTW, I'm running InvisionBoard).
A week passes, and she pops up yet again. Same damn ads, but with a different registered name, different email address, and different IP address. Once again, I banned all three new entities and deleted her registration. I suspect she'll be back though.
So, tell me folks, what are you doing to eliminate these idiots?
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Have you tried reporting her to her ISP? They might threaten to take away internet access.
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eh.... you really think those ISP (verizon, sbcyahoo, aol) care?


well the mods think so 😉
 
Another thought. InvisionBoard has a bad word filtering function. I could set it up so that every time she posts her name, company name, phone number, etc. in her ad, I could auto change it to something else. For example, Judy Smith becomes Spam Pig. Hmm..this could get to be fun...
 
that is a good idea.

also, some software allows you to require that all new registrations are manually approved , if you don't get too many new people to often, you could try to filter her out when she tries to make a new account
 
If it's a smaller board, require administrator approval of new registrants before they can post. IIRC, Invision has that ability.
 
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