[support] Captcha and spam issues

[Bob at TurnerPCC.com]

I have read, that somewhere they pay Humans to get past Captcha.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mutuku Ndeti
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:30 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Captcha and spam issues

used to have same issue with captcha, i still don't understand how the
spambots managed to bypass captcha.

a combination of captcha and http://drupal.org/project/spamicide fixed
the issue for me

On 29/05/2013, Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> 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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>> >
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