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| Item | Version from 17:19, 7 February 2020 by B4ndit | Version from 17:22, 7 February 2020 by B4ndit |
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Description:
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| | Username with common spambot format | | Username with common spambot format |
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| Notes: |
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| | The regex currently matches names like LewisHugh34, JamesElk4, JaneGerms9494, etc. This seems to be a very common spambot format where they take a random firstname (first character always capitalized), random lastname (first character always capitalized), and a random number. | | The regex currently matches names like LewisHugh34, JamesElk4, JaneGerms9494, etc. This seems to be a very common spambot format where they take a random firstname (first character always capitalized), random lastname (first character always capitalized), and a random number. |
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| | There are some variants that drop the appended number or use a single character lastname, but this simple regex will probably catch most SPAM accounts and more formats can be added to the rule to expand it as needed. | | There are some variants that drop the appended number or use a single character lastname, but this simple regex will probably catch most SPAM accounts and more formats can be added to the rule to expand it as needed. |
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| Conditions: |
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| | action == "createaccount" & | | action == "createaccount" & |
| | accountname rlike "[A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z][a-z]+[0-9]+" | | accountname rlike "[A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z][a-z]+[0-9]+" |
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| Actions to take when matched |
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| | Disallow | | Disallow |
| − | Warn: abusefilter-warning | + | Warn: username-common-spambot |
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