how to block spammers and scammers from website?

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nonai

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sometimes when I am using a proxy to access some sites, I get an error message saying I cannot access the site. I dont know how they do it but they have a way of detecting that you are using a proxy and blocking you. I would like to do the same thing.

I want to block proxies. in addition, I want to block any ip address listed on sites like stopforumspam and spamhaus. Also, I want to block certain countries, like India, Pakistan, Philippines, pretty much if they are not in US or Canada, I dont want them on my site.

how can I do these?

 

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If you use Wordpress, the must be a plugin out there for it.

 

Mr.Whitehat

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use cloudflare and it'll block known malicious ips. And use httaccess to deny access from unwanted countries

 

resistosai111

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htaccess rewrite is good idea do it man.

 

the_demon

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You can use MaxMind's paid services to block open proxies as well as country blocking. I've used them a lot and their information is highly accurate.

 

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Your best bet would be using Cloudflare, but their IP blocking is sometimes very wrong.

 

aqibarif74

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Mr Apricot said:

If you use Wordpress, the must be a plugin out there for it.

Click to expand...

1+ for Mr Apricot

 

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Mr Apricot said:

If you use Wordpress, the must be a plugin out there for it.

Click to expand...

Indeed:
http://www.wpreads.com/2013/03/blocking-proxy-servers-from-accessing-wordpress-sites.html
http://perishablepress.com/block-tough-proxies/
http://wordpressapi.com/block-proxy-servers-to-access-wordpress-site/

To block by location:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/

 

Adfirorakib

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You can use .htaccess to do it

 

PrinceVisi

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Why would you block traffic?

Free traffic is always good, no matter from where it comes.

 

TZ2011

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My Aprotect script is doing exactly what you want - blocking by IP and IP ranges (CIDR), by user agent, host, proxy, tor nodes.

Works on any site, follow instructions how to add one line of code into header or wp-blog-header.php. Edit ip's, user agents, hosts, add or remove what you want. Email reports coming, so you can adjust what to block or allow further.

Download:

Code:

https://www.mediafire.com/?7vs7snl11gkz61v

There is a two versions, one standard is with normal set for blocking, other one for paranoic set, plus proxy and tor nodes blocking. Everything is easy to enable or disable, you will see when you open the script.