Contact form spam October 27, 2020, 08:25:26 am Has anyone any advice for dealing with contact form spam. I was hoping to put some sort of anti-spam measure like capatcha or similar but I haven't been able to find any add-ons Thanks in advance
Re: Contact form spam Reply #1 – October 27, 2020, 09:21:06 am I thought we have anti-spam settings built in?
Re: Contact form spam Reply #2 – October 27, 2020, 10:01:11 am There is anti-spam in the rest of the settings, I just can't seem to implement anything for the contact form.
Re: Contact form spam Reply #3 – October 27, 2020, 07:32:32 pm None that I know ofI recall the idea was that if someone was having problems (with captcha or challenge questions) this allowed a way to still contact someone ... of course it also allows for PM spam to the admin. Would be good addon territory to enable google captcha or other to help protect things, but as of now I don't know of anything.
Re: Contact form spam Reply #4 – October 27, 2020, 07:46:57 pm You can try ReCaptcha add-od https://addons.elkarte.net/security/reCaptcha.htmlIt won't solve the problem but will limit some undesired emails. There was a period when I received spam almost everyday, now there are months since I don't receive spam from the contact form. IIRC I applied some filters on my email
Re: Contact form spam Reply #5 – December 20, 2020, 02:50:27 am There was also a lot of spam through the contact form. Recaptcha doesn't help. The only way out is to disable the contact form
Re: Contact form spam Reply #6 – December 20, 2020, 09:16:30 am Quote from: ksamochkin – December 20, 2020, 02:50:27 amThe only way out is to disable the contact form Or use a clever security question.
Re: Contact form spam Reply #7 – December 20, 2020, 10:01:30 am Right now that is a side effect of the form, its a magnet for spam. Do you have it enabled on every page or just on the registration form?