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Help My contact form is being spammed

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  • 19-06-2013 11:25pm
    #1
    SteveAdti
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭


    Every mins i am getting an email from my contact form.
    Can anyone advise or help PLEASE ?:(


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    #2
    SteveAdti
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭SteveAdti


    if i turn off php5 on my hosting will it make my contact form inactive temporarily?


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    #3
    KonFusion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭KonFusion


    Add a CAPTCHA.

    More information needed. Are you using a CMS? If so is the contact form a plugin?

    You can disable the email from your hosting Cpanel temporarily if it's really a lot of spam.


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    SteveAdti
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭SteveAdti


    site hosted on blacknight .. its every 10 mins continuos. no control panel have root files access
    dont know enough to add captcha


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    KonFusion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭KonFusion


    SteveAdti wrote: »
    site hosted on blacknight .. its every 10 mins continuos. no control panel have root files access
    dont know enough to add captcha

    You didn't answer my other question, see above re plugin/platform/CMS.

    I need more info in order to help you.


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    SteveAdti
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭SteveAdti


    im sorry but i dont understand .. i am looking at the backend files . I had the site built from scratch. its not wordpress or drupal or joomla.


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    sheesh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    i would disable the form for now.

    and look at project honeypot they will guide you throught a process it helped a spam problem i had on a forum i run


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    #8
    fcrossen
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭fcrossen


    SteveAdti wrote: »
    im sorry but i dont understand .. i am looking at the backend files . I had the site built from scratch. its not wordpress or drupal or joomla.
    In that case you are better off going back to the provider who built your site. A contact form should never be set up without some form of protection against automated submissions.

    It should be a small enough job.


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    #9
    SteveAdti
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭SteveAdti


    i dont use the web company anymore . can u recommend someone that can sort this quickly?
    Thanks for the responses guys


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    #10
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    It might be something you can do yourself.

    You'll need to find the form and then follow the below instructions to enable reCaptcha -

    http://www.google.com/recaptcha/whyrecaptcha


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    #11
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    It's a lot easier if you show us the form and the script you are using. There might be 2 simple solutions: add captcha or lockdown referrers in the form script. However without knowing the setup, we're trying to help you while blindfolded.


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    ThrowinShapes
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭ThrowinShapes


    As suggested above, the honeypot method could help you out a bit.

    In your HTML form, add something like this:

    <input type="text" class="my-field" name="someFieldName">

    Then in CSS:

    .my-field { display: none; }

    Finally in PHP you check if this field has a value. If it does, don't send the email:

    if( $_POST != "" ) { exit(); }

    See here for a full example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9447716/honeypot-php-for-comment-form


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