At one time I had my forum set up so that I must pre-approve new registrations via email. Somehow that got changed to auto approval without my needing to give permission.
I keep getting spammed by the same person that uses fish###@gmail.com. The number keeps changing.
Is there a way to prevent a particular email starting with fish*@gmail.com to not be approved?
Or add a feature that if the first and last name are the same, its not approved.
Or a way to NOT allow a new registrant to become an automatic member by requiring me to manually approve them via email ?
Thanks,
Phil
fish###@gmail.com
This is the same guy spamming my forum too!!!
Anyone else using Wpforo also getting this? Maybe it is related to this somehow?
@aima-forum How did you get his IP and ban him using that? WPFORO needs to make more powerful email filters to use the * character to ban this AH. Fish *@*.* would eliminate the problem.
But registrations and logins are handled by Wordpress core, not wpForo. Not a job for wpForo to ban anything. There is a huge ammount of plugins for all that.
@philhopethruscience-com I did everything at the provider level. my provider keeps statistics of visits by ip. I looked at when the registration e-mail came and compared it with visits. And then I set the blocking of this IP in the settings of the provider. While spam does not bother.
@aima-forum What was his IP mate?
Maybe thats a good thread here? Know IP addresses of spam accounts?
@percysgrowroom According to WPFORO, there is no way to ban a member of your forum by IP.
So not certain how that works.
@philhopethruscience-com you would take the IP adress and ban them in your server or on htacsess file.
Its just finding the address thats the issue. You can find it for members in the debug page, but some people do not show there for some reason.
If no IP address, then they shouldn't be able to sign up.... or something. Im am sure the team will figure something out to stop it from happening.
Hover over "Forum Dashboard" in the top admin bar
In the drop down menu click tools
There is a tab there for debug. You can enter a members number and it shows you info about them
Was no debug under tools but I did find this tool on the Inet and added WP-Ban plug in. Once this AH spams again (should not take long) I will have his email and use this tool to get his IP.
https://www.ip-tracker.org/checker/email-lookup.php
Then I can add that to the WP-Ban plug in I just installed.
Hopefully that will be the end of that.
Thanks,
Phil
@philhopethruscience-com Keep me informed mate 🙂 Id like to knwo the adress when you have it
Please read the #3 and #4 point of this topic:
@martin Thanks installed WP Approve plugin and it worked like a charm. Stopped him cold from logging in. The email address turned out to be invalid but his host IP is 142.250.9.26.
The new plugin seems to have prevented him access to my forum which is what I wanted.
Thank you everyone!
