[support] Captcha and spam issues

[Ken Robinson]

Try spambot: http://drupal.org/project/spambot

I use it and it does well in keeping spammers from registering.

Ken

At 05:00 PM 5/28/2013, Pia Oliver wrote:
>NO one is posting anything on the site. The robots (whatever form
>spammers come in, human or machines) manage to fill out forms and
>send them, which triggers a response email to the admin, for
>instance; a request for various appointments, etc. It's this response
>email that is the spam since it's only filled with gibberish, and/or
>porno/viagra/russian girls/ etc. And, in order to send that form a
>Captcha has to be met -this is the part I don't understand how it can
>be done by machines?
>
>Pia
>
> >One method I've used is to only give trusted users the privilege of
> >posting.  I allow for the user to register and accept that
> >registration based on the first logon mail link.  Then if they want to
> >post, comment or wiki, I have another role set to assign to them based
> >on asking me.  It keeps the SPAM off the site.
> >
> >The other method is to use a service such as Mollom.  See
> >http://drupal.org/project/mollom for more.
> >
> >Earnie
> >
> >On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Pia Oliver <pia at piasworld.com> wrote:
> >>  I have two live sites hosted at Hostgator.com and one development
> >>  site. All 3 are drupal7 sites and all webforms, forms of any kind are
> >>  set up with Captcha 7.x-1.0-beta2; Image Captcha 7.x-1.0-beta2.
> >>
> >>  All 3 sites's domains are registered at GoDaddy, the 2 live sites
> >>  have the name servers pointing to  Hostgator. The dev site is under
> >>  Hostgator's "domain" ie the numerical URL and "~/pia". The domain
> >>  name is live  and an old site is still up there.
> >>
> >>  One live site uses email addresses in a combination, some ending in
> >>  ".net" which are processed through Godaddy; the ".com" processed by
> >>  Hostgator.
> >>
> >>  The sites were previously hosted at GoDaddy and had no issues with
> >>  spam. Since hosting with Hostgator there is an ongoing issue with
> >>  Spam. Even though the forms are **all** have Captchas enabled,
> >>  submittals of the form are happening and I am getting floods of spam
> >>  telling me that gibberish so and so has applied for an account.
> >>  Occasionally, I get a filled out actual form where the different
> >>  fields are filled out with gibberish or URLs pointing, mostly, to
> >>  pornographic sites.
> >>
> >>  How is this happening? I have been told that robots are not capable
> >>  of deciphering an image but possibly math. That's why I have changed
> >>  every single one to image captchas.
> >>
> >>  I have talked with Hostgator numerous times, but so far they have not
> >>  been able to solve this. I have even been warned by them of all the
> >>  spam!
> >>
> >>  URLs   HeavenSentDesserts.com    RandallHouseRareBooks.com
> >>
> >>  thanks,
> >>
> >>  Pia
> >>
> >>
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