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No - misunderstanding. I thought you were using our captcha plugin which can be used on the registration form.
Sadly spam registrants and posters are one of the prices of running a website. As far as the forum is concerned, our combination of our own captcha seems to have almost eradicated this but this is, of course, a website-level issue at the end of the day and the best place to seek help is in the WP plugins repository.
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Thanks a lot. I deactivated the wp captcha plugin I was using and now I am using the sp captcha instead. In Italian it was translated to verbose (doh!) and I remade the translation shortening the sentences, so the plugin does not overlap with the final sentence announcing that a confirmation email will be received. Let's hope it helps.
I still don't understand why "humans" would want to register for nothing to my foum which is very small, bahhh 😀
Thanks
My forum (in Italian) is: MsPforum
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A lot of them, are carried out by bots. Like you I have no idea of the dumb intelligence behind people who do this but mostly they do not register in person.
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But they also change the password! I get the email saying so. So it's not just registration, they surely cannot be bots... or am I missing to see how can that be automated? It is really frustrating 🙁 I don't mind having to delete them manually, or I could use the spam plugin too, but I would like to understand how can a bot do that: going through the SP captcha or other types of captchas and then login and change the password too! 🙁
My forum (in Italian) is: MsPforum
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If they beat our SP captcha then they are probably human. You need to do some 'googling' as I am sure you can learn a lot more than I have knowledge of...
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If you host your forum DNS on CloudFlare it's possible to firewall block or JavaScript challenge those rogue bots. CF allows blocking by AS Number such as AS18978 Enzu and AS55268 Crap Shack.
This site is good to lookup IP information. When i notice a hit on my server the offenders are booted at CF before they waste my server resources.
- Doc ~ An old Fidonet SysOp. Just hanging out in cyberspace keeping up with tech.
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Great and worthwhile advice but probably too techie for Giovanna 🙂
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Just a hobbyist.. I've learned a lot over the years. The sucks site keeps me on my toes as it's constantly under an attack of some sort. Corporate scumbags never give up.. 
Their latest trick was using bots with spoofed smartphone ip's to post comments on a popular vehicle fraud awareness article. That stunt resulted is bogus keywords getting indexed into Google. The damage is being reversed.
Just another day in paradise.. 
- Doc ~ An old Fidonet SysOp. Just hanging out in cyberspace keeping up with tech.
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