New user approvals

[WeAreThePride]

I'd put my bet on a rival team setting up a spam system. I'm not a tech wizard, but probably not difficult to generate a great many fake accounts from randomized locations behind a VPN?

Seems odd though, you'd think they would rather spam with ND and MN towns. Maybe VPNs don't work that way, idk.

EDIT not a rival team, a fan of a rival team. My bad.

[ZHerd]

Awesome, I’ve never conversed with a bot from Tra Vinh…maybe

[tony]

I'd put my bet on a rival team setting up a spam system. I'm not a tech wizard, but probably not difficult to generate a great many fake accounts from randomized locations behind a VPN?

Seems odd though, you'd think they would rather spam with ND and MN towns. Maybe VPNs don't work that way, idk.

EDIT not a rival team, a fan of a rival team. My bad.

I believe that spammers start by getting a list of vbulletin site addresses. Then they try to register all of them because the script would be the same. Apparently, when they buy these lists, they also get the answers to each site's security question... I probably should change that to a math word problem.

[El_Chapo]

did PrairieChickenBison make the cut??

[admin]

did PrairieChickenBison make the cut??

Normally, I'd approve a user name like that right away without checking IPs and stuff... but I don't see the user name so they might need to retry.

[StL Bison Fan]

Done! I kept track of the locations for the last 35 IP address locations for "users waiting for confirmation":

Anastasiyevka (2)
Yaounde
Paris
Amsterdam
Kaluga
Los Angeles
Waltham
Hanoi
Grand Forks (approved)
Montreal
Cebu City
Karachi
Los Angeles
Washington DC
Fargo (approved)
Sargodha
Mumbai
Ahmedabad
Fargo (approved)
Tokyo
Phoenix
Fort Collins (approved)
Noida
Tra Vinh
Hanoi
Fargo (approved)
Perth AUS (approved - but I have my doubts)
Olongapo
Hai Phong
Paris
Basi
Istanbul
Saint Petersburg
Plymouth (approved)

I don't reject new users just based on their location, but if their username is gibberish, their username has been registered on a lot of boards recently, if the ISP sounds like it'd be one a spammer would like, and/or the IP address shows up as being flagged as a spammer... it's very time consuming which is all the more reason I should stay on top of the user registrations.

Spouse grew up in cebu. Suspicious

[VirginiaBison]

Done! I kept track of the locations for the last 35 IP address locations for "users waiting for confirmation": ..... I don't reject new users just based on their location, but if their username is gibberish, their username has been registered on a lot of boards recently, if the ISP sounds like it'd be one a spammer would like, and/or the IP address shows up as being flagged as a spammer... it's very time consuming which is all the more reason I should stay on top of the user registrations.

Yes it is. I know from experience. Thank you for what you do!

[BisonHorns]

Spouse grew up in cebu. Suspicious

I would have approved them all except one.
Grand Forks

[WeAreThePride]

I believe that spammers start by getting a list of vbulletin site addresses. Then they try to register all of them because the script would be the same. Apparently, when they buy these lists, they also get the answers to each site's security question... I probably should change that to a math word problem.

Ah, that makes sense. Don't you guys have a list of a few dozen security questions? I always assumed sites would do that and pick one at random.

[El_Chapo]

Normally, I'd approve a user name like that right away without checking IPs and stuff... but I don't see the user name so they might need to retry.

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