Massive Spam Suddently

[dknelson99]

My forum has been running for about 12 years. Suddenly, starting early yesterday morning, I've started getting a lot of registration spams. Most of them never confirm their email but they are non stop, like over a hundred in the last 24 hours. They all follow a similar format to this one but different IP Addresses, countries, etc. Any way I can stop it? They all use various numbers for the username.

Email Address : [email protected]
Birthday :
Referrer: N/A
IP Address: 176.213.146.179

Name : 87551144546
City : Rossia
State/Province : Se
Home Country : Seo
Bike Year and Model : bwpiartobPA
VR Assistance : No

[Bat21]

Are you running vbStopForumSpam?

[dknelson99]

I'm running a couple of different things. Not sure about that one. Does it work? I'll try it if it does. Where do I get it, VBulletin.org?

[Bat21]

It certainly does work. It stops around 1,000 spam registrations a day on my site.

[Bat21]

Here you go.
https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=230921

[ayjayef]

I've also had many years of good success with [GlowHost] Spam-O-Matic
https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248042

(just another option)

[dknelson99]

VBStopForumSpam is helping a lot. I've gone from several hundred to 3 or 4 per day. I didn't use to moderate new members but have to now. I also had to disable my automated "Welcome Thread" because for those that do confirm their emails, they get a welcome message after they confirm their email even though they are in moderation. I hated having to disable the welcome thread but had no choice.