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Client's website spammed

by Dominica Alicia
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Hi Offline Warriors

I need your advise and expertise. The client of mine has his website built on Wordpress. From time to time he's getting spammed with 20-30 messages per day sent through his contact form (the contact form is created by Contact Form 7 plugin and is right on the home page).

Is there any way to block it? His website is hosted somewhere with his previous SEO company.

I have all my sites (and clients sites as well) hosted on Hostgator and never had any problem like this.
#client #spammed #website
  • Profile picture of the author MrFume
    Does the site have Askimet plugin activated with an API code?
    This is a great first layer anti-spam tool-try it out
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    • Profile picture of the author Lopaca
      You might want to link to a Splash page where they can submit their information.That way you can control the submissions better. Little more hassle but an idea. I think all spammers should be hung by their b#*#s with barbed wire... The scum of the earth. You can tell I'm not fond of spam. Big waist of time and money for everyone.
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      • Profile picture of the author Falkonator
        Seems like most of my sites have this issue. So now I add a captcha field to the form and also install akismet.

        The captcha field helps a lot because most of the spam is automated and can't go through when they have to manually enter the code.
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        • Profile picture of the author jimbo13
          Simple.

          I do not have any contact form at all. Pointless things they are.

          I have a paragraph saying that I hate scumbags, nutters and spammers followed by the best way to get hold of me is to e-mail jimbo13 at whatever dot co dot uk

          Or you can just have one of those links that say e-mail which opens an e-mail with the address filled in. Don't know what you would call that though.

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        • Profile picture of the author Matt121
          Originally Posted by Falkonator View Post

          Seems like most of my sites have this issue. So now I add a captcha field to the form and also install akismet.

          The captcha field helps a lot because most of the spam is automated and can't go through when they have to manually enter the code.
          I did this as well. The captcha plugin really helped a lot in clearing out spam messages.
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  • Profile picture of the author imsolutionsgroup
    Purchase the Askimet plugin API. It's only 5 bucks a month and will save you/your client all that hassle.
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  • Profile picture of the author tsgeric
    Yes, I use a simple captcha plugin to put in a simple math problem at the bottom of the contact form. I also don't provide an email address on the site, I ask for people to use the contact from.
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    • Profile picture of the author kebertt
      A captcha should filter out most spammers. I have had this issue in the past with comments as well on client's Wordpress sites, and a captcha solved the problem.
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    • Profile picture of the author TonyDalton
      Originally Posted by tsgeric View Post

      Yes, I use a simple captcha plugin to put in a simple math problem at the bottom of the contact form. I also don't provide an email address on the site, I ask for people to use the contact from.
      A CAPTCHA plugin worked well for me as well, I also had a few clients getting spammed and now I use Contact Form 7 & Really Simple captcha every time I need a form.
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