Spammers sneaking through

[makryger]

I have the Anti-Spam ACP installed on my site, and it does catch call my attention to someone maybe once a week.

But I just had a new spammer post on my site. His specific IP address was listed in the SFS database 52 times over the past few years, some with "toxic" flags. And yet he made it through. This is the second time that has happened.

And then, on the other side of things, I have some people from US cities with an IP where only the first two ip numbers (at most) match any listing in SFS, and they get flagged for an account activation.

Why is this happening? Shouldn't the action taken by Anti-Spam ACP for those two examples be reversed based on the data in the SFS database?

[EXreaction]

The mod does not check the IP address of the person registering, IP addresses are not reliable all the time to determine if a user is a spammer and can affect legitimate users.

They probably matched either the username or email address, have you checked those?