Lots of fake users despite captcha in registration

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11 years 9 months ago #87735

Hi Guys,

One of my sites gets lots of fake users, despite using captcha in registration.
They just register and never visit. Can be anything from 2-3 to 20 each day.

How do I prevent that????

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11 years 9 months ago #87762

Hi,

1. Did you tested your recaptcha module through your registration form ?
2. What type of hikashop and joomla registration are you using ?

My advice would be to let your customer active their account trough an "activation mail".

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11 years 9 months ago #87769

Hi Mohamed,

I did test recaptcha to make sure it works.

We are using simplified registration without password. I am thinking that perhaps making registration a little more complex and perhaps introducing email confirmation field will make it harder.
Where do I enable the confirmation email feature??? I know i have seen it somewhere, but cannot think where it is??

Thanks in advance!

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11 years 9 months ago #87798

Joomla can actually do this, you'll just have to :

- Go to "Control panel->Global configuration->system->'New User Account Activation'"
- Set it to SELF

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