phpBB Spambot countermeasures

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I am running a forum on phpBB which is updated to the latest version (3.0.11) and in the past I had used reCAPTCHA as a spambot countermeasure. Unfortunately even with that on, I am getting tons of spam fake accounts, a problem which has caused some problems sometimes.

Through googleing I found out that a lot of people were suggesting I used the "Custom Registration Question" as more reliable solution. Although I can create and edit those questions, whenever I change the settings to any other form of countermeasure than reCAPTCHA, I am getting this error:

Forum registration problem

So for the time being I keep using the reCAPTCHA to keep my forum functional.

Anyone has any idea or any suggestion of what might be the issue or how can I fix it? I tried so far reuploading the ucp_register.php and .html from a clean install but still, I had the same issue. So I don't know what else to do...

Any help would be very much appreciated!

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1 Answers

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I'm freelancing on phpBB forums, and I'd advise you to try https://www.keycaptcha.com/ - it's cool captcha which uses Flash or HTML5(if Flash isn't supported). User has to complete small jigsaw puzzle with 2-4 pieces. I've already tried it on many boards and it helps a lot. Of course it won't help if some user is spamming, but it throws away all spambots.