I’ve got quiet some spam registrations since I didn’t install other anti-spam other than Askimet.

I now installed a few other anti-spam plugins and it looks like I am not getting spam.

But I do need to clean up the database and delete all spam.

I installed Mass Delete Users plugin (very useful) and in order to track spam registrations I checked up the users that had a URL in their profile and most of the URL were spam sites.

I also found and delete all users with “.ru”.

Now, is there aany other criteria I could TRACK spam registrations, since the other just have email and names. But how could I judge if a particular user is a spam or a regualr register.

I’d like to have a clean database to send newsletter only to real users, not spam registers.

Any advise on that?

Thanks.

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 5 months ago]

You could check if they left any comments? If you’re integrated with WordPress though, you’ll also want to check if they left comments there too!

[@therider62 Member 14 years ago]

Can you specify what anti-spam plugins you have installed? I am getting a huge amount of spam user registrations.

[@yps Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

I have the same problem. Lots of spam registrations and it is very complicated to delete the users. After every user I deleted I land on the start page. I tried a plugin https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/delete-all-bozos/, but it did not work.