Lichme2 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 I run a gaming website, and there is some moron that is mad because he thinks he can do whatever he wants on our servers. He has been banned, and now he is spamming our website with a bunch of racist crap. He connects through a proxy so an IP ban is useless. I really don't want to enable admin user verification, and was hoping there was something else I could do. The site is a postnuke based site. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
teng84 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 how does he spam the site? maybe this would help try to get the ip address of the users and from there do some action or do some confirmation so when the spammer logged he or she will not get the direct access with your site Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-293980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichme2 Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 They just register over and over and post racist comments and other comments of the same nature. I have tried quite a few things. IP blocks, user bans, I even put up a phony thing that redirected his username to a notice saying that a virus was uploaded to his machine. The only actual thing I havent done is given him the virus, and I probably would if I knew how via php. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-293998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldude832 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 does your registration have an email requirement meaning the ymust confirm their account via an email with a magic variable listed in it? edit: This will allow you to slow them down because they will need a valid email address every time they try and sign up and they will eventually hit the wall there and get bored Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-293999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teng84 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 hmm can we see your site any way have you tried cooldude suggestion Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-294001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldude832 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 teng we should team up on some projects because there doesn't seem to be a question we can't answer togehter Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-294002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teng84 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 i dont know you always watch my back hehe any ways yours idea is good Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-294007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesideez Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Lichme2, I have a script to read IP addresses through proxys if you want it. Only problem is, if he's not on a static IP then it won't have much effect and you could end up perm banning an IP in a pool... Once you get his real IP, perform a WHOIS lookup on it and report him to his ISP for abuse. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-294029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichme2 Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 Sure, the site is www.thetwistednetwork.net I'd like that script if you got it lying around, I reported him once about a year ago to his ISP (I had his IP before he started using proxies), then he stopped. He has since moved and appears to only be using proxies. I have already set it up so that you have to verify email addresses, but hotmail makes it easy enough to get. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-294115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldude832 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 This might sound harsh, but maybe you might need to ban hotmail emails from signing up Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-294117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldude832 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 also a truning number system would be a smart idea look into the GD library to help you there, but basically you would need to develop your own or find a script out there Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/59186-how-to-get-rid-of-a-spammer/#findComment-294125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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