spam via our forms

creatives · 15th January 2007, 01:18 PM

Can anyone suggest a way of getting round our sudden new problem?

We have a contact form on each page of our business website, all directed to an alias (info). Our problem is we are suddenly receiving a lot of spam sent via these forms (this is quite new, never happened over the last couple of years).

Can anyone suggest a way of blocking this? Obviously we dont want to remove the forms as this is our main way customers contact us.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Tim · 15th January 2007, 01:27 PM

Perhaps you'd like to post the code of your form and then we can work out how the spammers are exploiting it?

Rocky · 15th January 2007, 10:43 PM

You need a secure formailer with some sort of anti-spam measures.

I searched around recently and eventually found this free one , but if anyone knows of any other free formailers with CAPTCHA I'd love to hear of them.

TygerTyger · 15th January 2007, 11:43 PM

Interesting that it's named formmailer, an ultra-common target to the extent that it's name is banned from UH servers!

The very best thing you can do (even more so than a CAPTCHA IMO) is just add a validation question which will fail the script if it's answered wrongly. i.e. What is 2 + 2?