WP Forms .xyz and .ru spam emails

  • Resolved fyrakins

    (@fyrakins)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    I feel like I’m going crazy on what to do here. Honeypot is enabled, so is recaptcha, I don’t have any coding experience so I haven’t done anything else–but every day I get spam emails from .ru or .xyz from my form. It’s all russian spam and there’s no @ email to do the blacklist code thing I see recommended in old forum posts (and I don’t want to block .ru/.xyz as is because someone could have an email that has .ru in it? Like Alex.ru12 or something, whatever).

    Is there any way to stop getting these spam emails?? I’m missing important ones because it’s getting overrun, I’ll get 8-12 that are just Russian spam or trying to sell me viagra or whatever its super annoying and inconvenient.

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  • Hello @fyrakins,

    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, 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!

    Thread Starter fyrakins

    (@fyrakins)

    Hi sorry for the delay, I have recaptcha and I am still getting spam ??

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