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How do I block spam robots getting past captcha phrases on contact forms?

  1. Teresa Schultz profile image80
    Teresa Schultzposted 5 years ago

    How do I block spam robots getting past captcha phrases on contact forms?

    On an html brochure site, not WordPress or Joomla or anything.

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  2. Tony Flanigan profile image60
    Tony Flaniganposted 5 years ago

    Remove the forms from your site. And don't publish your e-mail address on your site. If you absolutely have to display your e-mail address, create an image with your e-mail address on it.

    Even the practice of substituting the @ with the word at or [at] is being beaten by bots.

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  3. psychicdog.net profile image77
    psychicdog.netposted 5 years ago

    Are you sure it's the spam bots that are getting past the captcha? The spam may not actually come from the captcha or the form but from a DISPLAYED EMAIL ADDRESS on this contact page. The bots are scrapping up your email and storing it because they can identify anything on a webpage with the pattern: StringOfLettersAndOrNumbers@mydomain.tld  as an email address. As Tony advises display email as an image not text.

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    1. Teresa Schultz profile image80
      Teresa Schultzposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      There's no displayed email address on the page; the forms are even coming through as if were submitted from elsewhere, because not all the usual form fields are showing up when these spam emails come through - like from which page submitted, for eg.

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