2015-11-07, 01:07 PM
I've closed my forum because spammers seem to use it for their spamming needs.
http://dansmark.com/D2LC_School-Forum/index.php
I've only had new users register that have NO interest in my forum's subjects.
I began to notice my spam was increasing in my email box.
I setup the forum to send the registration to my email address, and it worked correctly for a few users.
I had no email messages for new user registrations, for a long time.
One day I when to the forum and found a new user, then went to admin mode and found 15+ users listed.
I never received a registration email (all my spam goes into a folder, so I know the email was never sent.) from any of them.
I banned all of them.
Spam stopped (but it never occurred to me the spam might be from my own forum users...).
1st time:
I banned all the users (none seemed interested enough to ask why they were banned), and the spam stopped suddenly.
2nd time:
Same as 1st time.
The the last bunch of users gained access by registering (still no registration came to my email address).
After I banned them all and close my forum, I've not had any spam since!
Conclusion:
MyBB is not working correctly, and seems spammers use it for their stupidity!
I think I may delete the forum, but I wanted to see if others have had this same problem 1st.
I did a lot of work trying to get the forum to look similar to my website (because I had no clue how to achieve it).
Surely there are some kind of safeguards in place to keep this kind of thing from happening.
Dansmark
dansmark.com
http://dansmark.com/D2LC_School-Forum/index.php
I've only had new users register that have NO interest in my forum's subjects.
I began to notice my spam was increasing in my email box.
I setup the forum to send the registration to my email address, and it worked correctly for a few users.
I had no email messages for new user registrations, for a long time.
One day I when to the forum and found a new user, then went to admin mode and found 15+ users listed.
I never received a registration email (all my spam goes into a folder, so I know the email was never sent.) from any of them.
I banned all of them.
Spam stopped (but it never occurred to me the spam might be from my own forum users...).
1st time:
I banned all the users (none seemed interested enough to ask why they were banned), and the spam stopped suddenly.
2nd time:
Same as 1st time.
The the last bunch of users gained access by registering (still no registration came to my email address).
After I banned them all and close my forum, I've not had any spam since!
Conclusion:
MyBB is not working correctly, and seems spammers use it for their stupidity!
I think I may delete the forum, but I wanted to see if others have had this same problem 1st.
I did a lot of work trying to get the forum to look similar to my website (because I had no clue how to achieve it).
Surely there are some kind of safeguards in place to keep this kind of thing from happening.
Dansmark
dansmark.com