{"id":989424,"date":"2015-07-23T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/dealing-with-spam-registrations\/"},"modified":"2015-08-08T07:05:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T14:05:03","slug":"dealing-with-spam-registrations","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/dealing-with-spam-registrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with SPAM registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note the details in this topic https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-submission-page-how-to-prevent-spam\/ and from the outset I enabled the Registered Users only.<br \/>\nMy TEC has only been live this week and already I have a SPAM registration.  I doubt the email account will receive a confirmation email and post an event, but it&#8217;s possible. Are there further ways to prevent this?<br \/>\nIs there a way to actually Approve people trying to register before they can post an event?<br \/>\nThanks,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-989424","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dealing with SPAM registrations -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/dealing-with-spam-registrations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dealing with SPAM registrations -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I note the details in this topic https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-submission-page-how-to-prevent-spam\/ and from the outset I enabled the Registered Users only. 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