If statement to stop fake registrations

Hello everyone,
I get lots of fake accounts with the same firstname and lastname pattern, it's like this example:

first name: ShaneReeli , lastname: ShaneReeliHI
first name: RobinHag, lastname: RobinHagQO

I have some basic knowledge of programming , so I guess I could put an if statement for all those fake accounts, something like below:

if (substr(firstname,0,firstname.length) == (substr(lastname,0,firstname.length)
{...
return error
}

to get an error on registration form and stop those fake account registrations....what do you think? Can you help me write this, but I do not know the exact file to put this if statement...is it at the register.php file?

I also have captcha on registration for, but it does not seem to help...

Thank you in advance,
Tonia

Our SpamBot Buster is able to eliminate spambots' fake account registrations, as well as spam mails via the Contact Us page. Traditional captchas are often overcome quite easily by modern spambots.

I had the same exact thing going on. The formatting of the names was exactly the same as the OP. Obviously some kind of routine they run on Opencart sites.
My developer got it taken care of but I do occasionally still get one as I did today but somehow he got it to where they can't keep doing it over and over on the same day.
But what is the end game for doing this? I mean why do they do it, what do they hope to achieve? It doesn't make sense. So you created a bunch of accounts and I'm annoyed, and had to delete them all. But now what? Is it just to annoy site admins?

The file would be catalog/controller/account/register.php. You would need to add to function validate.
However there are probably better ways to stop the fake registrations.

One explanation I have seen as to why they do it is to send out registration emails. They use many sites to fill up a victim's mailbox, hoping they will then not see other important emails.

Give this a go: https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... er=antropy

thanks guys I will try everything you suggested....suddenly things got quite when I added some anti bot list to .htaccess file from GitHub....

antmagn wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:22 am

suddenly things got quite

So if all is ok now, please add [SOLVED] to the start of this post title.