Spammers getting hold of my email

Hey,

Since we have increased traffic I'm getting a lot of spam.

I think the spammers just sign-up to get the email.

Also when some of them sign-up with a dead email address I keep getting the delivery failure messages in my inbox.

Can I stop this at all?

Thanks.

Dave.

Hi Dave,

Most of the time, these spammers are using an automated service to sign up. The ones I have noticed on my forums all have "Man" as their Biography (field1). They wait a while, then spring spam posts on you.

After installing the Is Bot and Spam Blocker mods from vBulletin.org, 80-90% of these were blocked at registration.

I use a capcha image, guess this isnt enough.

Will try out your mods thanks!

Had to uninstall the email spam list MOD, it kept banning genuine users on free email addresses.

Indeed. It will do that, because 90% of those free email providers are havens for spammers.

There's a 'whitelist' somewhere in the .txt files, or you can just remove the domians you dont want to block in the file named after the first letter of the domain. (ie: hotmail.com is in c.txt).