spam on Personal Fundraising sign up

Alicia Searfoss

We're getting spam pages set up through Personal Fundraising: http://www.nrcprograms.org/site/PageServer?pagename=roar_personalpages_create.  Has anyone else had this happen?  Does adding captcha prevent it?  I'm still working on figuring out how to add that, but hate to waste the time if it doesn't help.

Chris Bailey

Hi Alicia, you're not alone. We're seeing that too despite having CAPTCHA turned on. We're also getting spam on guest book entries. I know BB has temporarily disabled guest book functionality so it appears to be getting some high level attention since it's impacting database performance. My guess is that attention spans to those spam pages, as well. Not sure of a timeline for fix, though.

Stephanie Breiby

Hello Alicia and Chris, We are also experiencing the problem of spam personal fundraising pages, and our social media manager has noticed an increase in traffic on Twitter for the pages as well. Example: https://twitter.com/asdhyatgshfuho1/status/695586148282994688 And, similar to Chris we tried CATPCHA to no avail. The vast majority of ours seemed to have been set up around the end of January, but more continue to come in.

Alicia Searfoss

Thank you, Chris and Stephanie.  January is when we noticed this happening too.  We use the guest book to vote on pages and of course have a major campaign going on now.    What a mess!