[URGENT] Getting spam every 10 minutes w/ captcha

Subject says it.. i tried not doing the captcha and it wouldnt go through.. but they keep mailing me.
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Captchas are not secure any more, the spammers have long since gotten scripts to deal with them. Try the SPForm contact form; it uses several different methods of at least slowing them down.

If you use SPForm, try just setting



It will stop most spambots since they user neither.

If that doesn’t work, you can add:


which will almost certainly stop your spammers (at least for now).

Thank you all very much for your help. The keyboard thing is sweet... i dont like captcha.. since if there is a chance that my user wont use it due to captcha its not good.

I noticed the same problem too. I didn’t used to get spam with capacha till now but in the past month its unbelievable. they most be paying twice for spammers before the xmas or something

would be very cool if we could simply use additional security features available in spform straight in eform and enjoy both worlds.

The hidden last name field method detailed by Susan here is still working very well for me on multiple websites. You just need to add an eForm event function to make it work. You might give that a try if you don’t want to use SPForm.

I don’t think Captcha will be a viable preventative measure for the most part. Spammers are pretty good at decoding even-obfuscated text these days, so alternate methods are probably a better solution..

Quote from: rthrash at Dec 28, 2008, 04:11 PM

I don’t think Captcha will be a viable preventative measure for the most part.

Plus Captcha has always been hella annoying...

Will a new method be introduced as a core function in Revolution (and Evo)?

Not likely. Though Bob’s SPForm is in the Installer system so you can easily add it to your particular site. We’re trying to get away from distributing a lot of add ons with the installs so we can focus on the core and enhancing it while allowing third-party developers a great tool that makes even complex combinations of snippets/chunks/templates/tvs/plugins and content simple to install. For more background, see my recent 0963 release blog entry.