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Sensei
plc613:
Both are "88952634" which is the same as almost every entry for this customer.
That suggests they used some sort of bot to create the account.
Zen Follower
DrByte:
That suggests they used some sort of bot to create the account.
That was my gut feeling...And to add to your earlier comment; For whatever reason I don't have China in my list of countries!?
Zen Follower
Okay. Thanks.
Zen Follower
So I looked up another customer to get their country_ and zone_ ids and used that to populate this rogue customers entries and was then able to delete the account.
Zen Follower
plc613:
That was my gut feeling...And to add to your earlier comment; For whatever reason I don't have China in my list of countries!?
Turns out in the front end China is an option but in the admin it's not listed. All evidence seems to point to the entry having been deleted...Is that simple/possible to restore?
Administrator
plc613:
So I looked up another customer to get their country_ and zone_ ids and used that to populate this rogue customers entries and was then able to delete the account.
Very crafty!
Zen Follower
the country(China) appears to be properly listed in the db:
44
China
CN
CHN
1
Zen Follower
lat9:
Very crafty!
So is that a safe method to apply to my live site? I did this on my dev...
Sensei
plc613:
So is that a safe method to apply to my live site? I did this on my dev...
Yes you can. But it's a hack, and shouldn't be something you do on any regular basis.
Zen Follower
DrByte:
Yes you can. But it's a hack, and shouldn't be something you do on any regular basis.
Yes. Of course. It's just to kick the rogue account. So I suppose captcha would have prevented this...
Sensei
Maybe, but not necessarily.
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