Mountain of SPAM in WPForms

Hi @erwordpresser,

We’re sorry to hear that you’ve encountered spam issues.

If you’re still having spam with reCAPTCHA enabled, you can consider increasing the security level of the reCAPTCHA integration on your site.

For v2 reCAPTCHA, you can do this by going to your reCAPTCHA account. Then in the settings of your current integration, you can adjust the Security Preference slider.

For v3 reCAPTCHA, you can adjust the settings in your WordPress admin area by going to WPForms > Settings > reCAPTCHA. In this Score Threshold field, you can increase the score to a higher number for stricter security.

And if you’d prefer not to use reCAPTCHA, we have another anti-spam protection feature, hCaptcha. This is a good option if you’d prefer not to sign up for Google’s reCAPTCHA service. Within your forms, hCaptcha will display a checkbox asking users to prove they’re human (much like Google’s v2 Checkbox reCAPTCHA). We have a detailed guide for setting up hCaptcha.

Alternatively, you can consider the third-party plugins such as WordPress Zero Spam or Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk which work out of the box to protect your forms against spam.

Hope this helps!

I looked into both plugins. Looks like WordPress Zero Spam pushes to get people to purchased the full version before you even know it works. I installed the CleanTalk plugin on one my own websites that gets lots of junk to my WPForms. I will see how that goes.

Thanks for your reply.

Hi @erwordpresser — No problem!

If you have any other questions related to spam prevention, please let us know ??

Hi @erwordpresser — We haven’t heard back from you in about a week, so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread for now. But if you’d like us to assist further, please feel welcome to continue the conversation.

Thanks!

Hi Nik (hope that’s right),

Found this while searching for help with the huge number of fake free trial registrations our site’s been experiencing for the past week. We use the free version of WP Forms and V2 reCAPTCHA. I moved slider to “most secure” and am crossing my fingers that will help.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll let you know if it works.

Linda

This thread came up in a Google search I did because WPFORMS is not stopping spam at all. I have tried the Google spam blocker and WPF’s own hCaptcha, and have increased the protection and nothing is working.

I just got an email from a client and it’s non stop for them as well. I removed my contact form from my own site.

What is going on? How are bots able to bypass security?

I installed CleanTalk to my client and my own websites and the comment and registration SPAM has gone to zero.

https://cleantalk.org/

Give it a try.