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devdept

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Registered: 2013-09-20

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StopForumSpam is accepting all email requests (even spammer ones)

Hello,

Here is the summary of my problem:

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Can you help me please?

Thanks,

Alberto

Alex Kemp

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Re: StopForumSpam is accepting all email requests (even spammer ones)

Not unless you state your problem here we cannot. Just giving a link to another site makes you look like a spammer.

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devdept

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Re: StopForumSpam is accepting all email requests (even spammer ones)

Thanks for assisting me Alex, I'm going to copy and paste the description of my problem here:

We are using this nuget package https://www.nuget.org/packages/StopForumSpam.Net/ successfully from years and from a week or so it simply accepts any email on our website.

The code we use in our ASP.NET MVC website to validate account registration follows.

Does anybody know what happened? Did this nuget package become obsolete?

if (CommonUtils.IsAvailable("http://www.stopforumspam.com", 1000))
{
   Client client = new Client("xxxxxxx");

   Response response = client.CheckEmailAddress(model.Email);

   if (response.Success)
   {
      ...
   }

}

How do I know that most of the accepted email addresses are spammer? Because they are rejected by Mailchimp. In addition, the number of registrations is increased considerably in the last two weeks.

I've also tested this http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/CSharp_Free_Code/API/Download_Stop_Forum_Spam_Net.htm Visual Studio project and the result is the same. Whatever email you check, the result is always good.

Thanks,

Alberto

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Re: StopForumSpam is accepting all email requests (even spammer ones)

I checked the API incase something had gone disastrously wrong but I see valid results

https://www.stopforumspam.com/api?email=durwood53@monsterhom.com

It gives the expected data.

I tried the test app for the .net wrapper and it gives the expected results as well

devdept

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Re: StopForumSpam is accepting all email requests (even spammer ones)

Hello,

Here are the last ten registrations, these email addresses are all rejected by Mailchimp with the following error: willdog36@gmail.com has signed up to a lot of lists very recently; we're not allowing more signups for now.

From my tests, these are all good on StopForumSpam but actually, they are not real website users.

Please check and let me know. If you need more cases, we can provide them. From a couple of weeks we have a lot of registrations like these ones.

willdog36@gmail.com
franshawnharren@gmail.com
carolineflamberti@gmail.com
lking3634@gmail.com
carrla930@gmail.com
mariapautono@gmail.com
chris@danielsaudio.ca
hostadalyssa@gmail.com
tomandlinda@shaw.ca
bukohnzuza@gmail.com
jendavis1203@gmail.com
travis.masters@verizonwireless.com
ashlisalokar@gmail.com
enadav26@gmail.com

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Re: StopForumSpam is accepting all email requests (even spammer ones)

We don't exchange data with mailchimp who deal in email spam prevention.  We only deal with forum/blog spam.

Until they hit a forum/blog with spam, we'll won't be able to include them in the API lookups.

devdept

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Re: StopForumSpam is accepting all email requests (even spammer ones)

I see, thank you for the clarification.

Alberto