Stopped Spam on Contact Form 7

For the past three days this tool has done a great job of blocking spammers. I got tired using reCaptcha and quiz challenges and it seems the persons are doing it manually or have some smart system to outsmart the two security tools.

I set contact form to record their IPs and decided to look for a way to report them as SPAM and quick Google search brought me to CleanTalk’s platform that has submission tool for reporting SPAM IPs and look up their report history from your database.

To my amusement, I found all the IPs I collected have a SPAM history that dates back months and years go. I wondered why the IP providers haven’t blacklisted the IPs from use.

But thank God, CleanTalk has a WordPress solution that sync’s spam IPs in real-time from other websites that are using its tools. And this has helped reduce the spam to ZERO!