Contacts added by ?

[StefaanHaesen]

Hello,

I've got CiviCRM 4.4.4 running on Drupal 7.27. I added some 250 contacts over the past week and today I notice some additional contacts like 'Allen Allen', 'Kristan Kristan' and 'Leanne Leanne'. Any idea where these contacts come from ? (I did not add example data during installation)

Thanks,
Stefaan

[adixon]

Those sound like spam entries. you might want to disallow public registration. You're not alone,
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,27351.0.html

[StefaanHaesen]

Thanks Adixon, do you mean Drupal public registration ? It seems the contacts do not correspond with spam entries on the drupal side.

[adixon]

Maybe not, but it's probably still the issue. I believe the civicrm entries (via the Drupal profile mechanism) will get created even if the Drupal ones get blocked before they're created.

[petednz]

I believe the civicrm entries (via the Drupal profile mechanism) will get created even if the Drupal ones get blocked before they're created.

yes they will

[StefaanHaesen]

Can this be avoided ? f.i. would it be possible to tell the profile mechanism it should only add enabled account info ...

[petednz]

can it be?

well probably given that enough time and ability is thrown at the problem ;-) but certainly not with what comes in the box at present

or perhaps another route would at least be to add a marker to civi accounts where the CMS is 'blocked'

we have done a bunch of work from the drupal side (ie Views and VBO) to make it easier to find spam accounts ie accounts that have never been accessed with the 'action' to then delete both drupal user and civi account - some time i will blog about it and provide the files etc

[StefaanHaesen]

Hi Pete, I'll stick to deleting for the moment, but looking forward until 'some time' ;-)