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Is it possible for a bot on the net to find your forum and signup and post useless posts while advertising poker and casino sites? I got 3 users on my forum that have signed up oct., nov., dec., (in that order of months) with all poker related signatures and same style of names and emails.

that sounds weird. maybe if you pm them and if you get the same answer from all that will probably tell you that they are bots, but i have not heard of this problem before

Usually, forums have anti-bot measures like the verification code you usually see when signing up. The way those images are constructed makes them very hard to read using code.

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Originally posted by raceprouk
Usually, forums have anti-bot measures like the verification code you usually see when signing up. The way those images are constructed makes them very hard to read using code.

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but if they get past that by having a human enter it or something then yes its quite possible...

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Originally posted by -dt-

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Originally posted by raceprouk
Usually, forums have anti-bot measures like the verification code you usually see when signing up. The way those images are constructed makes them very hard to read using code.

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but if they get past that by having a human enter it or something then yes its quite possible...

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Or maybe its disabled on his forum I mean the image verification process. You better enable it in that case

I think it is enabled isn't it.

I don't think it would work like that if the human entered the code and the crawler did the rest.

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Originally posted by Destruction
I don't think it would work like that if the human entered the code and the crawler did the rest.

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ugh you want me to write one that does is?  its possible , inconvenient but possible.
the user would goto a page , the crawler would parse the signin page (and save the cookie or whatever keeps that session) then give the user the image , once the user enters the correct thing it sends it back to the sign up form with the cookie (or whatever keeps track of the cookie) and then it would have to parse the email that it gets. just do a simple GET request on that and bang spam time...

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ugh you want me to write one that does is?  its possible , inconvenient but possible.
the user would goto a page , the crawler would parse the signin page (and save the cookie or whatever keeps that session) then give the user the image , once the user enters the correct thing it sends it back to the sign up form with the cookie (or whatever keeps track of the cookie) and then it would have to parse the email that it gets. just do a simple GET request on that and bang spam time...

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hmmm... good job i said i don't think.

Seems I have been corrected, would be interesting to see it.