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#1   04-09-2007, 03:57 PM
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I started to get a lot of spam through Contact Us.

The spammers are not registered, is there a place I can set so only registered users can use Contact Us, or can I use Akismet or some other CAPTCHA script to elimate this spam? What is the best approach?

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do you use the image varification ?

there is also at least one spam mod for the contact us form.

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The same thing happened to my forum, I had to remove that option from my forum for some days until the spam was over. That was sad trust me..
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do you use the image varification ?

there is also at least one spam mod for the contact us form.
I don't use image verification, should I?

Also do you have links to either image verification or a contact us form spam mod? Are they referenced on this site?

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#5   04-09-2007, 05:51 PM
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if you dont you probably should. I SWEAR by the nospam! hack, it has a option to turn it on for contact us as well.

check it out.

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if you dont you probably should. I SWEAR by the nospam! hack, it has a option to turn it on for contact us as well.

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#7   04-09-2007, 08:00 PM
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I'm going to be beta testing a new spam hack shortly :-"
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if you dont you probably should. I SWEAR by the nospam! hack, it has a option to turn it on for contact us as well.

check it out.

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Yep, my forum is pretty small and I was still having 1-3 spammers per day register and a couple per week using the Contact Us.

Been about 10 days and I have had ZERO spammers register.

Of course, I have also eliminated anyone who can't add 2+2 !!!! :p
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awesome man, glad i & the hacks author, could help
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OK I have it installed. Please double-check my math --

1 + 2 equals...:3:three
2 + 1 equals...:3:three
1 + 3 equals...:4:four
3 + 1 equals...:4:four
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