Contact Page Spammed

[TcM]

Well I have a contact page (FindItGlobally.com - Business Directory >> Contact Us) in my business directory and it is being spammed.. I am receiving a lot of emails from that with spam mail.. what can I do to stop this SPAM? Do you think that adding a msg box with a simple question (so user will press yes or no) will block the bot? Or what?

Thanks.

[Lop]

I get this a lot too. I think it is spiders that crawl for contact pages and emails. I hate the whole lot. I get more spam than regular mail now and all of my accounts.

You can add a captcha image that will cause these bots to cease. I think there is some code somewhere on here that does that.

[TcM]

ATM im too lazy.. so I used Free Contact Form Scripts it's quite good

[twalters84]

Hey there,

Well, I can suggest you do one of two things.

1. Have an automated string that users have to input. This string would be random.

2. When a user submits the contact form, have an automated email sent to their email address. In this email, have a link back to your website passing a variable that basically says.. hey look.. i really want you to contact me.. if the sender does this, you can be pretty sure it is not spam.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

[TcM]

Yeah.. The first one seems simple and effective.. like a captcha, but instead just a normal string... BUT the second one seems not to work! Because I know some websites that have the email verification process and they still are spammed with spammers.

[Lop]

Not to mention half of the people will never return the email verifying it is not spam thus you will be loosing a lot of valid email.

[Kaabi]

Originally Posted by Lop

You can add a captcha image that will cause these bots to cease. I think there is some code somewhere on here that does that.

Assuming I'm thinking of the same thing you are (captcha image, although I've never heard that term before), then I agree, those are very helpful. I hear there are some bots that can actually make out numbers by visually analyzing them, and that's why they have to be all curvy and such.

[TcM]

That is why I didn't use captcha images! Instead I used something that needs logic