Still Getting Spams

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Last updated by Nigel 2 years, 1 month ago.

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November 21, 2022 at 7:23 am #2500593

randallH-3

CRED forms is still getting spams even with reCaptcha.

Here is the form: hidden link

How to stop it?

November 21, 2022 at 10:33 am #2500705

Nigel

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You could try adding a honeypot field to your form, which is a form input for some disposable field that you hide with CSS so that your users do not complete it, but which spam bots would provide a value for.

You can then either use some JavaScript linked to the submit event that checks if there is a value for the input (in which case it is spam) and reject it, or you could do something similar server-side using the Forms API (e.g. the validation hook https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_form_validate).

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