[support] Captcha and spam issues

[Hummel, Tracey S - (thummel)]

captcha protects against spambots but I don't think it prevents spammers (humans paid to post content).  If you allow users to register for an account on your site, you will get spammers who are paid to post bogus comments or content.    

Tracey

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On May 28, 2013, at 8:19 PM, "Bob at TurnerPCC.com" <Bob at TurnerPCC.com> wrote:

> 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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