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I have changed my Q&A a couple of times.

I have even used: https://www.countryipblocks.net/country_selection.php

To block all of Russia IP from my .htaccess

Still, they are getting through. Any Ideas? A sure-fire Q that I'm not thinking of maybe.

Thanks in advance,

John
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Your Q&A is too easy. You should use a question that cannot be answered by Google.
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Post by Deactivated 1950056 »

Virtual private networks can easily change a users IP address often to one from a country of their choosing. That easily explains how they're getting through. IPs can also be spoofed.

Have you made your question relate to your board? As in a question that only has an answer on your board, such as "what's the last four letters of this board's name?" or something along those lines. Something a user can easily find browsing your site that a bot cannot search.

You can also create a sortables question and make users sort objects into categories correctly in order to register with an extension like this: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... s_captcha/

As Brf as stated, the key to keeping them out is a good question.
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