SPAM on developer portal

[frank_arrigo]

Hi

Looking for suggestions on how folks are handling spammer accounts on the dev portal

We're seeing LOTS of registrations from a particular domain - drupaler.org

My concern is that this is creating many bogus accounts on edge

Also - are there any tools for bulk user manager?

[anilsr · Accepted solution]

Dear Frank,

You need to enable Captcha or Recaptcha or mollom module to prevent spam registrations on user registration form.

https://www.drupal.org/project/captcha

https://www.drupal.org/project/recaptcha

https://www.drupal.org/project/mollom

You can prevent registrations based on domain name using https://www.drupal.org/project/domain_registration module.

You can use Views Bulk Operations and create a new view to manage users.

Cheers,

Anil Sagar

[anilsr · Accepted solution]

Dear Frank,

You need to enable Captcha or Recaptcha or mollom module to prevent spam registrations on user registration form.

https://www.drupal.org/project/captcha

https://www.drupal.org/project/recaptcha

https://www.drupal.org/project/mollom

You can prevent registrations based on domain name using https://www.drupal.org/project/domain_registration module.

You can use Views Bulk Operations and create a new view to manage users.

Cheers,

Anil Sagar

[williamking]

@frankarrigo What did you end up doing and was it successful?

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Frank Arrigo

Thanks for bringing this to our notice, We will have to take series of steps to address this.

#1 How to Stop on-going Spam ?

Looks like most of the spammer accounts are by Bot, Please enable Google recpatcha on registration form.

Get google recaptcha for your domain - https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list

Enable google recaptcha module on devportal by logging as admin, Navigate to Admin-> modules. However this method will not address manual ( intentional ) spammers.

#2 Clean the existing spammer accounts

As you already identified, most of the spammer emails are drupaler.org, We need to delete these users from devportal which will subsequently delete on edge as well.

Navigate to Admin->People ( admin/people ) , search for drupaler.org string which will list all email containing drupaler.org in it. Select all and delete forever.

#3 People Account settings,

Navigate to Admin->Config-> People -> Account settings, Please make sure to check "Require e-mail verification when a visitor creates an account."

Please share your feedback and we can work on it to reduce the spammer flow further.

[sgilson]

For information and documentation on adding CAPTCHA to the portal, see the portal docs here:

http://apigee.com/docs/developer-services/content/add-and-manage-user-accounts#addingcaptcha

Stephen