Spam Bots Destroying My Mailing Lists

  • Resolved gtabroker

    (@gtabroker)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    I have MC4WP on a number of sites and most are getting multiple spam sign ups daily.

    This has been going on for some time and I cant seem to get a handle on it.

    Recently, I installed WPbruiser on 2 sites on test mode and have clicked the MC4WP button in settings but get this error:

    Submitted Form: MailChimpForWp
Test Status: Rejected
Reject Reason: Invalid Token
Client Ip Address: 217.117.248.140
Client User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
Warning : Do not activate protection for MailChimpForWp !

    Cant seem to get a handle on this spam issue and wondering if I need to use a different signup form going forward?

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  • Plugin Contributor Lap

    (@lapzor)

    Sadly WPBruiser seems to have been abandoned and in some server configurations it’s not working anymore. On my own PHP 8 test server WpBruiser is throwing some errors as well.

    Of course turning on double opt-in will filter out all the spammers, but it may also filter out a couple of real sign-ups as people sometimes neglect to click the opt-in link.

    Thread Starter gtabroker

    (@gtabroker)

    Thank you. Is there a solution we can expect from MC4WP anytime soon?

    Plugin Contributor Lap

    (@lapzor)

    I can’t give out any public predictions on when new features will be available.

    Thread Starter gtabroker

    (@gtabroker)

    Is there a workaround in the meantime you can suggest?

    Plugin Contributor Lap

    (@lapzor)

    turning on double opt-in for the form you’re getting a lot of spam signups on will do it.

    Thread Starter gtabroker

    (@gtabroker)

    Thank you. Hope to see an update from MC4WP soon!

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