recognize spam users from real useraccounts?

Danny,
We honestly haven't really heard of any spam user accounts being created through Facebook. Since user's have to create a Facebook account first, and Facebook vets those accounts already for duplicates, email activation, etc, a single person 'generally' shouldn't have more than a few accounts.

The best thing you can do to check the accounts created through JFBConnect is go to the User Map area of our extension. In there is a link to each persons Facebook profile. Check out some of the accounts you think are bogus and see if you still think that after seeing their profile.

Beyond that, not sure what else to do, but hopefully that gets you started. Should you find some oddities in profiles, let us know. We'd be happy to look into it more if there's anything more we could do in our registration process to validate users.. but I'm not sure what off-hand due to all of Facebook's checks that would have already been performed.

Alex

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. My guess is that those accounts aren't created by JFBConnect. The easiest way to check is to use the User Map area in JFBConnect and simply look that user up. If they aren't in there, they didn't create their account using Facebook.

Beyond that, I'd recommend checking out a lengthy forum post we made, How to handle spammy Joomla new user registrations . That was a response to a similar question and has a lot of suggestions on how to handle spammy registrations.

Check that out and let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks, and good luck,
Alex