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    Posted: 17 September 2009 at 9:59pm
Any ideas what's happened here:


1) A spammer somehow got through the CAPTCHA (maybe a real person signing up)
2) The topic / style has broken!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WebWiz-Bruce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 September 2009 at 9:19am
With CAPTCHA and email activation enabled on your forum then it will be a real person signing up to write the spam post.

As most forums have these types of setting nearly all forum spam these days it from real people. In some 3rd world countries you even have sweat shop style workshops of people being paid a few cents each day to go around spamming forums, web forms, blogs, and anything else they can find.

The issue with the formatting is because of the way the post was copied and pasted from an Apple Mac document, which has thrown the page styling out.

The simplest thing to do is delete the post and then suspend the members account as that will prevent them signing up again using the same email address.

The following document gives information on how to protect your forum from spam:-

http://www.webwiz.net/webwizforums/kb/spam_prevention.asp
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Scotty32 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 September 2009 at 9:27am
The "spammer" added some HTML tags to their post.

Maybe due to copy and paste?

As its safe HTML (a few cells) the forum didnt remove it, though I noticed it may of removed a part of it.

see here:

<td width="127"><p>
    </p></td>
            <td ="" width="273">


and this at the end of the post:

</p></td>



If you view the source you'll see the problem.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 123Simples Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 September 2009 at 6:19pm
It would be simple just to delete that topic
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MortiOli Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 September 2009 at 5:24pm
No offence, but I do realise I could have deleted the post and banned the member, and do realise that it would most likely be a human signing up to post.  However, I was bringing the formatting issue to WWG attention, as it may be some code which has been missed in testing, and should be filtered out.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 123Simples Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 September 2009 at 6:27pm
Sorry MortiOli - I was just saying, but fair point and yes having looked back at again (when eyes are not tired and brain not knackered) your posting does make good sense

I guess as with all packages of software, someone else will always try to find a way to upset what should be for most of us mere mortals, brilliance at its best. Spammers make me sick
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