How do I disable New Username Spam from my Wordpress Blog?

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How do I disable New Username Spam from my Wordpress Blog?

Here is a tip I found:

Disable new user registration in WordPress ? PhpMyAdmin

That is a bit extreme. I want people to be able to register. I do not think the way I want my web site to be will work of there is not a registration page.

I was assuming that somehow there was a script that was being run in a direct sort of way that was generating these email messages. But, for now, I will go with the idea that maybe a bot is running on my register page and it is getting beyond the Captcha control.

I thought this way because the email messgae is saying that someone is requesting a username, not that they are trying to register.

My Forum/Blog is a paied web site (to keep out the riff-raff) and people have to buy a subscription to the site. But, suprisingly, this does not stop my inbox from being flooded by "requests for a username".

Here is what my inbox looks like:

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Most of the time, the email addresses in these messages are fake. But sometimes they are not but when I email these persons back, I am ignored. So they really are just spammers looking for a way of posting ad content on my web site for free.

The Registration page has a CAPTCHA Code required entry field:

ArgueMax Registration Form

But I wonder if the bots are sophisticated enough to get past that.

The user has to click on the "I accept the agreements" field but the agreements field clearly tells the user that they have to buy a subscription. If they do not click on that check box they get this:

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One way I want to try to keep from getting all this spam is to make it such that the registration button is inactive until they click on the subscribe button

https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/b...cribeCC_LG.gif

How do I go about making that happen?

I want to do this without resulting to any ajax control. I want to set some sort of varable to false that will make the registration button inactive and then set it to true if they click on the subscribe button and then send a refresh message to the registration page.