Some of the spam bot posts here looks like abuse I have seen on other Discourse forums I’m an admin for, the thing I have found that works for them is in admin to go to Customise → Watched Words and add strings, for example for one forum we have:
Phone Pe
PhonePe
refund money
Kuku FM
PLB Credit Loan
EKart
Smart Rich
Zepto
Blinkit
Rupee Loan
𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐏𝐞
𝐑𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐞
𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐧
Paytm?kosk
refund a wrong transaction
Paytm
kosk
मैं
फोन
से
अपन
रिफं
व
पस
कैसे
रा
kese
se
के
गलत
ट्रांजेक्श
ट्रांजेक्शन
नी
पैसे
फोनपे
बाद
वाप
rupee
𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚
𝘾𝙪𝙨𝙏𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙧
𝙇𝙤𝙖𝙣
Hi Chris
There does seem to have been an increase in spam recently, and I appreciate you taking the time to report posts as spam (I’ve just cleared out the backlog).
Looks like @oranod has added most of these, so let’s see how things look over the next few weeks.
On one forum it got so bad that we had to resort to requiring the first posts from users to be approved by an admin, hopefully that won’t be needed here…