Force First Last Name to be different
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I installed Ultimate Member to cut down on the spam users/messages and it has helped. I have been able to reject all of them before they approved via e-mail which has eliminated all spam messages. However, I’m still getting several new spam registrants and the common feature seems to be that the first name and the last name and the user name are all the same.
Is there a way to require that the first and last names be different or could the plugin look for cases such as this? Here’s an example:
https://www.jetdv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SpamUser.png
Using the standard register form with all fields set to required:
https://www.jetdv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/UMRegister.png
I have considered adding Google reCAPTCHA but would like to remove one more hoop for new users to jump through.
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Very good.
I will add a spammers log,
which you can view from a WP page via a shortcode,
with date/time, the entered names, email and IP
for follow up like adding spam IP’s to your Wordfence firewall IP block listDo bear in mind just how many email IP addresses are shared and not unique to a particular user – IP number blocking is a blanket measure that may penalise many other innocent users. For instance some of the cheaper or free email providers use IP as a primary signal in spam blockers with dire consequences for people unfortunate enough to share their outgoing email IP with other customers of that provider – often they will not know this is the case and their rejections are due to other users.
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