PINKOUTC.A.L.L..C.O.M. - Dealing with FORUM SPAMMERS 101 - HELP PLEASE
 

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Domain servers in listed order:
NS5.LUNARBREEZE.COM
NS6.LUNARBREEZE.COM

Domain going for 2 years, so they've been successfully spamming a while.

LUNARBREEZE.COM doesn't load.

Normally you go for the DMCA at host level.

Now what?

Automated BOT spamming a forum of mine.

I want to get their site taken down.

Can you provide some information on how their website is spamming your forum?

Do the bots have the same ip address? email the isp the bots are using.

captcha + question :2 cents:

15 forum posts with mixed keywords.

That's the problem, usually the ISP is DNS related. In this instance I don't know who the ISP is via a whois. How can you find out?

They have to manually signup, it's a custom forum based on YAF which is asp.net, a little unusual in itself.

I had our programmer try and put in place 20 posts before being allowed to post a URL but that failed obviously. :mad:

If it is a bot, you need to stop it at signup page. Going after one spammer won't stop other bots. I can recommed you to:

1. Put captcha on signup page with a random background image (distortions won't help much).
2. Put a question on signup page (that you can change anytime).
3. Randomize the table size on signup forms (highly efficient stealth from the bot)

I had the same problem with many bots, but after implementing these three precautions, no bots have managed to break through.

Bump 4u :)

Well, that depends on the IP. Go here:

http://ws.arin.net/whois/whois

If it says anything about RIPE, or APNIC, it's european, or asian. Otherwise, it's probably in the united states.

Checked already, nothing doing.

What is the ip address?