SPAM Free Forms
A few of our clients have been contacting us lately with the problem of “FORM SPAM” - basically a lot of junk responses arriving via their web forms.
This occurs when a spammer sets up a “software bot” that crawls the internet looking for web forms - and subsequently fills it in with junk and sends it to the site owner… once your form is discovered by one of these “spam bots” you will no doubt begin to receive continual junk emails from your form.
One solution to this problem is to add a “turing test” or “security code” to your web based forms. This requires the form submitter to answer a question or submit a code only decipherable by a human.
We have upgraded a number of online forms to use such a test, and to date it has been very effective…