780482 - Spam accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 832642

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20120725203009

Steps to reproduce:

Visited 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:CliftonU
https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:KathrinMgs
https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:JeramyLab
https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:BradyXs

Possibly others at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:Log/newusers (look for NameSurname pattern)


Actual results:

Lots of spam accounts


Expected results:

Captcha or honeypot successfully dealt with incoming bots

Comment 1

[kitchin]

In the last 24 hours, the wiki has been flooded by spam accounts. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:RecentChanges shows page after page of accounts with spam links.

Comment 2

[kitchin]

Note, this page is constantly updated with new spam:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/index.php
See: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Education/index.php&action=history

Comment 3

[kitchin]

See also Bug 832642.

Comment 4

[David Weir (satdav)]

Marked as a duplicate bug as one on file