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Preventing account creation by last names with YyyyyyyYY pattern

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:16 am
by cottonheadedidiot
We are plagued by a bot that gets around Google Captcha a few times a day and makes an account. It seems like the last name always ends with two or three upper-case letters. No real customer would enter that pattern. Others have seen this I'm sure.

It seems to me that somebody must have made a string recognition script to spot this end of last name upper case sequence pattern and prevent form submission because it is such a nuisance, at least for us. Has anyone seen such a script that I could drop into Phoenix 1.0.3.1? Thanks!

Re: Preventing account creation by last names with YyyyyyyYY pattern

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:17 am
by raiwa
Replace recaptcha with mathcaptcha. It works:
https://phoenixcart.org/forum/app.php/ ... hs_captcha

Re: Preventing account creation by last names with YyyyyyyYY pattern

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 7:10 am
by mhsuffolk
raiwa wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:17 am Replace recaptcha with mathcaptcha. It works:
I can confirm that. I was getting many fake accounts from Zimbabwe. Not one since installing Mathcapture

Re: Preventing account creation by last names with YyyyyyyYY pattern

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:17 pm
by cottonheadedidiot
Thank you for trying to help.

I don't think the add-on is compatible with Phoenix 1.0.3.0

For one, there is no 'hooks' directory in includes/languages/english.

I created the directory and added the files, and the result was simply subtraction of the submit button on the registration form. I guess that's one way to do it!

Thanks anyway. It was worth a try!

Re: Preventing account creation by last names with YyyyyyyYY pattern

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:50 pm
by heatherbell
cottonheadedidiot wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:17 pm I don't think the add-on is compatible with Phoenix 1.0.3.0
Time to upgrade?
This addon helps - app.php/addons/free_addon/ce_phoenix_upgrader_utility/