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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => General Questions => Topic started by: parfumylacno on December 27, 2016, 20:05:50 PM

Title: spam registrations
Post by: parfumylacno on December 27, 2016, 20:05:50 PM
Hello

Please, do anyone know something about spaming registrations (most from india) to example same users with nick names like BlackwormIllumpele, llumpele, and so on, still with llumpele in name..

i have eshop with parfums and i works and promote only in slovakia, there is no reason for foregin registrations/visits..

is there any posibility to stop that spaming registrations? For now i only delete that users.

thank you have a nice day
Title: Re: spam registrations
Post by: GJC Web Design on December 27, 2016, 22:40:47 PM
I use this : https://www.rupostel.com/virtuemart-extensions/extensions/geolocator-for-joomla for sites suffering heavy spamming from specific countries

you can use the detection to block in the root index.php or registration etc
Title: Re: spam registrations
Post by: parfumylacno on December 30, 2016, 16:14:59 PM
thank you, looks great.
for now i found out that in registration  (https://www.parfumylacno.sk/prihlasit-registrovat)site  was missing capcha protection = because it was not enabled in virtuemart, only in joomla. So i enabled it in virtuemart and now spam is not coming. but better solution should be without capcha (it is annoying for all customers)
Title: Re: spam registrations
Post by: jenkinhill on December 30, 2016, 16:37:31 PM
Registration is annoying for shoppers, too, and can lose sales, which is why I usually only use guest purchase.
Title: Re: spam registrations
Post by: tomsson on December 30, 2016, 22:45:40 PM
Hi

How set VM to guest purchase?
Title: Re: spam registrations
Post by: Jumbo! on December 31, 2016, 09:01:05 AM
Disable the options called "Only registered users can checkout" and "On checkout, ask for registration" in VirtueMart Configuration under Checkout tab.