I agree, the mods are looking into options to resolve this, takes a bit and $$ as well, I noticed a rash of newbies and right away noted they were repeat hackers promoting garbage or spamming pm's.
Excuse my ignorance here. I don't hang out here too much anymore, but am also getting the garbage.
Are these real people or bots getting past the captcha? If they're bots you could replace the captcha with something like this (Sample Below). It drive's 'em nuts. I've done this for a few other forums. The other sites that I do work for were getting close to 100 bot accounts a day. Once I changed to this style of authentication the number dropped to 0. It does require directly editing the forum's code, but worth the effort. If they're real people, the only other thing that can really have an affect is to require an admin approval for new accounts. What a P.I.T.A. that is.
^ yeah I like the these type of filters because it tends to stop the auto logins and it does annoy spammers / bots .
list updated, if you see any others, pm me, I'll add them to the list, admins can see these easier and get them fixed.
I'm nervous to open my inbox. I have 4 inthere 2 from a forum moderator???
admins 3 new updates, these members are spammers.
Got spams from all of them...currently 11 msgs in my inbox.
Plus the ones that are sending me this virus wont take a PM back.