evildick

I've got a small mainstream forum that is being hit by spammers. The site is new and really has little traffic to speak of.

I get people registering and posting porn and pills spam. The messages stay up for less than a couple hours at most before being deleted, so it's not like they are getting any traffic from it.

I've banned a shitload of free email addresses from being able to register, but this person keeps coming back the following day with new ones, mail.ru, mymail.com, mymail.net, etc. I think they'd soon have to run out of free email hosts.

So I'm just wondering are these just bots or is there really someone out there that stupid? Seems like a lot of work for zero payoff, if in fact someone out there is taking the time to register and confirm their email address, etc.

I'm running phpbb, and it has the image confirmation when you register. Are those easy to bypass using bots?