There is a user on my forum that I can’t find his location, and he goes to my forum just to cause trouble, intrigue and destruction, what can I do? How does he manage to hide the location?How can I not allow this? [image]

Hi, is the unknown location appearing for all the users? If so, you might need to follow this . Did you suspend his account?

It only appears for this user, if I suspend the account, he goes there and creates another one, how does he achieve this?

He’s likely signing up with different IP through a VPN/proxy. It’s a tricky situation to deal with. This Discourse Fingerprint - Browser Fingerprinting Plugin might help you detect early, but there is not much you can do (in the meaning, automatically). The help of your community by flagging inapp…

That’s the ISP for the Opera VPN. You can try banning their whole IP block, but it’s a whack a mole game. One thing you can try is making TL1 harder to obtain and making the forum either invite only or oauth2 only for a while.

How can I leave only oauth2? is there a way to disallow temporary email to register?

[image] Arkshine: He’s likely signing up with different IP through a VPN/proxy. It’s a tricky situation to deal with. This Discourse Fingerprint - Browser Fingerprinting Plugin might help you detect early, but there is not much you can do (in the meaning, automatically). The help of your commu…

You can define this using the blocked email domains site setting. There is no way to bulk add domains to my knowledge. Maybe someone has more information than me though :slight_smile: edit: I was wrong, see Unknown location, what can I do? - #19 by Canapin to bulk add domains.

danielabc: How can I leave only oauth2? Uncheck “enable local logins”

What do you consider a ‘temporary’ email address? For many people, it’s gmail.

[image] Mike Nolan: What do you consider a ‘temporary’ email address? I don’t want to speak for them but my guess is that they’re talking about disposable email addresses (from services like yopmail, to provide a single example).

Unknown location, what can I do?

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MikeNolan (Mike Nolan) March 25, 2023, 9:11pm 12

I wonder if something like this would be helpful on signup requests:

https://scamalytics.com/ip/api/pricing

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