So... Let me make sure I understand. They pass the Captcha and they also click the link in the email?
That's some serious scripting. The reCaptcha stopped all spam to my site. If they are clicking on the email links as well, that's pretty advanced.. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Kris Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, this is a bit OT, but we're using CF for the site, so thought I'd see > what other CF folks are doing about it. > > We've got a very busy legacy home-grown forum that since late August 2009 or > so has been getting hit heavily by the Link-Building industry. Posting > requires membership, which requires a captcha to be entered, and a > confirmation email link to be clicked. Everyday, I search and invalidate > hundreds of link-building memberships (the ones I can find). Interestingly, > none of the links ever get posted -- we're using akismet, which does a > pretty good job of stopping these. > > But, time is money, and hunting these suckers down (not to mention the ones > I don't find out of oh, 700+ new memberships a day), plus just their > presence in our database (more records == more processing time) is not a > good thing. > > What are folks doing about this kind of abuse? And, can someone educate me > on why the link-builders keep creating accounts when it's obvious their > posts aren't getting published? I can tell from the data I'm seeing that > it's the same people/scripts day after day. I'm at a loss. > > -KJ > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330650 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
