Defeating Spammers!

[Carbo]

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?

 

[saltedeggman]

just keep banning

get some active mods on your board, like the ones we have here

 

[Ryuson99]

Originally posted by: saltedeggman
just keep banning

get some active mods on your board, like the ones we have here

QFT

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Have you tried reporting her to her ISP? They might threaten to take away internet access.

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Have you tried reporting her to her ISP? They might threaten to take away internet access.

eh.... you really think those ISP (verizon, sbcyahoo, aol) care?


well the mods think so

 

[saltedeggman]

also, we will always see spammer here and there....

just utilize all preventive measure to discourage them to come

 

[Spikesoldier]

ban her ip range

/thread

 

[Carbo]

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
ban her ip range

/thread

I've thought of that. But, then I might block some others inadvertently.

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Carbo

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
ban her ip range

/thread

I've thought of that. But, then I might block some others inadvertently.

comes with a cost...

 

[Carbo]

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...

 

[FoBoT]

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

 

[yllus]

If it's a smaller board, require administrator approval of new registrants before they can post. IIRC, Invision has that ability.