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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?

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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.
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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.

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