Lots of spam, reCaptcha seems to be failing

  • Resolved rvdoorn

    (@rvdoorn)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    We notice a considerable increase of spam messages through the form we created. The advice to install Akismet didn’t help at all. We used the basic captcha and the various recaptcha’s, blocking IP’s…
    This doesn’t make any difference. One the messages even confirms that that:

    ”
    We propose
    Sending your business proposition through the Contact us form which can be found on the sites in the contact partition. Contact form are filled in by our application and the captcha is solved. The advantage of this method is that messages sent through feedback forms are whitelisted. This method improve the chances that your message will be open.
    Our database contains more than 25 million sites around the world to which we can send your message.
    The cost of one million messages 49 USD
    FREE TEST mailing of 50,000 messages to any country of your choice.
    This message is automatically generated to use our contacts for communication.
    ”

    it seems that bots actually are capable passing the reCaptcha. One of the main reasons to use the form is to avoid spam, but the plugin doesn’t seem to be good for that purpose at this moment. Is there anything we can do about this?

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  • Plugin Support Zhanna Khachatryan

    (@zhannak)

    Hi @rvdoorn,

    Thanks for your inquiry.

    We are really sorry for this spam issue and I want to let you know that we are actively working on reducing spam submissions through our forms.

    Dear user, with our latest version (1.13.12) we have Recaptcha 3 available, please update the plugin to use this protection.

    Besides this, with our next version, we’ll have an antispam option available which will highly enhance spam protection.

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