Stop spam with registration field

Question

I am getting a lot of spam registrations from spam bots. I have additional registration field for user location. This specific spam bot uses different user names, emails and IPs but same text for the registration field I have added. Is it possible to filter the user registration by this registration field? I just want to block registration if a specific text is used in the additional registration field. Any programmers help is highly appreciated.

Comments

Try using Q2A Honeypot plugin
https://question2answer.org/qa/104758/free-spam-plugin-q2a-honeypot

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I have installed this. But I dont see any options for it under plugins; Do I need to do anything other than placing the files in the  plugins folder and enabling it? Do I need to create honeypot questions/fields?

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The plugin doesn't have any options. Just install and enable it. No need to do anything else.

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It also happened with me, I've completely changed the register page url to to stop spam registration

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Can you tell how yo do it?

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Please explain how you did it?

Answer 1

In addition to the Honeypot plugin that was suggested in gold-developer's comment, you can also try:

https://github.com/pupi1985/q2a-kk-abc: this is just a fork I'm maintaining that provides a captcha that seems to be harder for bots to bypass than reCapatcha

https://www.question2answer.org/qa/98717: this plugin will do some checks on the IP address and email of the registering user against SPAM bot databases and reject the registration.

Comments

Unfortunately I cannot confirm that kk-abc is working better than reCaptcha. I switched from reCaptcha to kk-abc a week ago, and the amount of spammer registrations on my site more than doubled (18 this week vs an average of 8 per week over the past 10 weeks).

I may still stick with it, though, b/c it's more privacy-friendly than reCaptcha and I don't like handing my user's data over to Google.

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q2a-kk-abc is working very well, thanks for maintaining that. @pupi1985