Recently I've noticed an influx in members on my site, and they all seemed to be made on the same day, strange eh me thinks a spammer... Then I started noticing random posts full of spam links with clever titles whom you would think is not spam but it is in my forum.
I've constantly been deleting these spam threads and banning the user however they keep coming back with a new account, with new email address and a new ip. Because theyre hiding their true ip with some proxy I cant track the real culprit and ban him for good.
Does anyone have any ideas on solving this problem? Any special software that can uncover a hidden ip? The longer I wait, the more he spams and the more random accounts he makes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I wonder what daft uses to prevent these things from happening on these forums Oo
Dont know if it matters but my forums run by vBulletin.
Also I'm estimating the guy made about 50 accounts so far in this month, but I cant tell if some are legit or made by him. Is there a way to find some connection in all these accounts so I can delete them all?
I've constantly been deleting these spam threads and banning the user however they keep coming back with a new account, with new email address and a new ip. Because theyre hiding their true ip with some proxy I cant track the real culprit and ban him for good.
Does anyone have any ideas on solving this problem? Any special software that can uncover a hidden ip? The longer I wait, the more he spams and the more random accounts he makes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I wonder what daft uses to prevent these things from happening on these forums Oo
Dont know if it matters but my forums run by vBulletin.
Also I'm estimating the guy made about 50 accounts so far in this month, but I cant tell if some are legit or made by him. Is there a way to find some connection in all these accounts so I can delete them all?