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Websites Getting Spammed To Death, What Is The Name Of This Type of Captcha?

by RedShifted
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Hey guys,

I have a quick question. A while ago I use to have captchas right on my forms (I use contact 7) to stop spammers / bots, but I took them out because I heard captchas reduce conversions.

And ever since I took the captchas out, I've been getting thousands of spam messages a day.

So I looked around, and noticed sites that have captchas AFTER the form. Like you press submit, THEN a separate page pops up with a captcha, the user fills it out then the message goes through. I thought this would be a smarter strategy to use because the person has already put in most their details, so I don't think it will impact conversions.

But WHAT IS THE NAME of this type of captcha?

Is there a special name for it?

And also, how difficult is it to set up on my own?

Because I need to do this on 4 sites and I just got a quote from a guy on fiver. He is saying its gonna be $30 per site or $120 just to put this type of captcha in?!

I'm not an expert at coding, but I know how to put a captcha into contact 7 directly into the forms. And that only takes 5 minutes to do. This is a bit different but it doesn't make sense how it should take that much time. Am I missing something? Is this guy trying to rip me off?

And can anyone point me in the direction of doing this myself? Because I'm going to need to do this on more sites in the future and I'm not paying $30 per site just to have this type of captcha installed. What term can I search on Google to find tutorials? I have no idea what its even called or what to look for.

If ANYONE CAN HELP I would GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!

Thank you,

-RS
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    Hello,
    Well you can search it on google by typing (How to install captcha in my site).If your site is simple or php or etc then click here
    OR
    If you are using wordpress then click here captcha plugin.Hope this Helps!
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    • Profile picture of the author rubelsbs
      I will suggest akismet or re-captcha for stop spam bots.
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      • Profile picture of the author planetlubs
        Originally Posted by rubelsbs View Post

        I will suggest akismet or re-captcha for stop spam bots.

        Akismet would not help on form messages. I think it only works on blog comments
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        • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
          Red,

          I think that the best (ie "least intrusive") type of captcha is the "honeypot" captcha. Basically, the way it works is... the vast majority of all spambots will fill out *all* of the text fields in a form. So what you do is add a hidden text field to your form, and then in your code that processes the form, use a conditional statement to determine whether the hidden text field was filled out. If it was, then you kill the script. If it was not, then the script proceeds as usual.

          It's also a good idea to give the hidden text field a name that sounds important to a bot (ie name="phone"). And don't hide the form via HTML / CSS (as some of the "smarter" bots would be able to detect that it's hidden, and not fill it out). Instead, hide it after the page has been loaded, via Javascript / jQuery.

          PM me if you need some code examples.
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          • Profile picture of the author Myles Sinclair
            Originally Posted by Brandon Tanner View Post


            ".....I think that the best (ie "least intrusive") type of captcha is the "honeypot" captcha...."
            Nice solution Brandon. I haven't been on the forum for a while, and on my first day back I've leaned something new and useful! Thanks.
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          • Profile picture of the author KMalo
            Either the spambots are getting smarter, or I haven't configured the plugin correctly, but I used the honeypot captcha plugin with contact form 7 and it didn't work.

            I noticed that the spambots were able to tell the difference between required fields and non required fields and therefore did not fill out the hidden honeypot field (which is a non required field) nor did they fill out any other field on my form which is a non required field. So the spam continues.

            Originally Posted by Brandon Tanner View Post

            Red,

            I think that the best (ie "least intrusive") type of captcha is the "honeypot" captcha. Basically, the way it works is... the vast majority of all spambots will fill out *all* of the text fields in a form. So what you do is add a hidden text field to your form, and then in your code that processes the form, use a conditional statement to determine whether the hidden text field was filled out. If it was, then you kill the script. If it was not, then the script proceeds as usual.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arina
    you can switch to gravity forms plugin, they allow multi-page forms. This way on page 2 you will display a captha.
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    • Profile picture of the author jaystelenerberg
      the best solution for me was quiz - random custom questions put something very similar and easy for example write xcv in box below that's it, it's not hard for user and works pretty well eliminating 100% of spam
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