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<blockquote data-quote="ToddG" data-source="post: 337623" data-attributes="member: 23228">I have a phpBB board and until recently it was completely spam-free.&nbsp; Then we suddenly started getting new members with no connection to our forum.&nbsp; None of them ever posted a message, and all of them had www links in their profiles that were to things we wouldn't allow (adds for drugs, porn, etc).&nbsp; One easy way to identify friend from fake is to look at the user profile as an Admin and see what language they chose.&nbsp; &quot;Albanian&quot; is the first choice listed and almost all of the fake accounts choose it.&nbsp; Since we have no Albanians on our forum, I just delete them.&nbsp; We get 2-3 of these fake accounts per day.&nbsp; At first we sent them all emails asking them to verify, but never got a response back from a single one.&nbsp; So now we just execute anyone who looks suspicious.&nbsp; The way things should be. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />The other option I have is SMF, but unless there's a very painfree way to convert my phpBB database (users, forum structure, posts, etc) over to SMF then I'm just going to live with things as they are for now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ToddG, post: 337623, member: 23228"] I have a phpBB board and until recently it was completely spam-free. Then we suddenly started getting new members with no connection to our forum. None of them ever posted a message, and all of them had www links in their profiles that were to things we wouldn't allow (adds for drugs, porn, etc). One easy way to identify friend from fake is to look at the user profile as an Admin and see what language they chose. "Albanian" is the first choice listed and almost all of the fake accounts choose it. Since we have no Albanians on our forum, I just delete them. We get 2-3 of these fake accounts per day. At first we sent them all emails asking them to verify, but never got a response back from a single one. So now we just execute anyone who looks suspicious. The way things should be. :) The other option I have is SMF, but unless there's a very painfree way to convert my phpBB database (users, forum structure, posts, etc) over to SMF then I'm just going to live with things as they are for now. [/QUOTE]

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