This is a quick article where I will share with you some tips on how to prevent or at least reduce spammers and spambots from registering and posting articles on your Joomla Website. If you are in the same boat as me, a few times a week you receive notifications about new user accounts created on your site but after looking at the accounts and/or their posts, you quickly found out that these were spammers therefore unwanted "friends". Also, looking at their email address, you probably noticed that some of their addresses were from the same domain or even top level domain. Here's what I did to prevent and reduce spammers from registering and accessing my site.