Our client is getting spam comments from a user named “Anonymous.” There is no user by that name registered. In fact, we have it set up so users MUST be registered to use the forums.

Any idea what could be going on? We haven’t had this problem for the 8 months of the forum being online, then we get 1 spam comment every couple days. Forum is hosted @ http://gpoguy.com/forums/

Thanks!

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 1 month ago]

Check your forum settings, anonymous posting may be enabled.

https://codex.bbpress.org/forum-settings/

Anonymous posting
Any site visitor can post a new topic or reply without the need of logging into your site. They will still be required to enter a name and email to post, but will not be required to create a username or password and will not be shown in the list of WordPress Users.