I’ve been getting suddenly a ton of these fake accounts posting on my forum in the last 11 hours. I’ve never had this type of attack before and I was wondering if there is any plugin or automatic way to stop this?
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We have a guide that may help here:
A couple specific comments there may also be helpful:
One very useful regular expression is \d{3}-\d{4}|[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)*\.[a-z]+ which blocks email addresses and phone numbers. Don’t forget to enable settings - posting - “watched words regular expressions”.
We’ve seen a number of clients hit by large spam attacks lately, and what they all had in common is that they opened up one or more categories to everyone - create, bypassing all trust level restrictions.
For seasoned Discourse admins it’s obvious that this is a bad idea, but for less experienced people it’s not. So it might be a good idea to state the (for us) obvious and add this to the start post of the topic.
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tobiaseigen
22. September 2025 um 15:10
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@AntiMetaman were you able to resolve your issue?
tobiaseigen
22. Oktober 2025 um 15:10
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