I got a form working on my FWP page and I am wondering if the test form submission I sent has generated some spam on the email that I used to fill in the form. I thought many of these forms are a good way to protect the person sending the email as well as the (hidden) email it is going to. I got a spam email this morning to both email addresses. Maybe I am skeptical, but is this possible? How can it be protected?
A CAPTCHA will help or stop a bot from using your web form to sent the
recipient spam with but it will not stop a human, I personally think
the best way to stop spam sent by a human using your web form is to
use a processor that has a badwords blocker and then stop the various
elements of text that are common with that sort of spam, much more
than that you can’t really do but generally that is enough.
HTH
On Jan 12, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Beatrice wrote:
I got a form working on my FWP page and I am wondering if the test
form submission I sent has generated some spam on the email that I
used to fill in the form. I thought many of these forms are a good
way to protect the person sending the email as well as the (hidden)
email it is going to. I got a spam email this morning to both email
addresses. Maybe I am skeptical, but is this possible? How can it be
protected?
The host server has pretty good spam filters in place and I have added additional ones along the way, as needed. They even added added (paid) protection that is another option.
Since the email address (the recipients) is hidden and not displayed at all, only the script selects where it goes, it should not be possible for a human to visually see the email address where it is sent - correct?
In additional to the contact form created, I was debating to add the actual email addresses in a table but use a mail captcha so they could not be seen by bots (but of course, a human could). Since the form is available to send, there didn’t seem much sense to add this feature to the form.
Are your emails obvious emails like info@yourdomain or sales@ yourdomain or an easy name like john@ yourdomain or carol@ yourdomain ?
Spammer will send out email to all these regardless of what you do. And some eventually will get through and not even use your form. Even tricking you into think it has come from a form. And a Mike said, there are low paid workers who manually complete forms.
Same spam is inevitable if you want to run a business online. We use SpamSieve in OSX Mail which gets rid of something like 99.9% into a Spam folder. its very good.
Reading some Spam occasionly is also very amusing.
David
On 12 Jan 2010, at 16:05, Beatrice wrote:
I got a spam email this morning to both email addresses. Maybe I am skeptical, but is this possible? How can it be protected?