Nope.

  • TomBruner

    (@tombruner)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    Yeah, made the mistake of installing this and can’t see what’s collected without upgrade to pro. Well, mostly what has been collected has been crap lie this:

    Hi, this is Irina. I am sending you my intimate photos as I promised. [a tiny url]

    Okay, I’m going to leave this here and comb through the DB to find the IP of these miscreants and block them. Then I will rip this piece of debris from the platform.

    I’ve been putting Ninja forms on other sites, I have an extra seat I can replace this spam magnet with.

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  • Deepak Kumar Sharma

    (@dsharma03)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @tombruner,

    I’m sorry to hear you’re having issues with SPAM entries. This is becoming an increasingly common issue across the internet, unfortunately.

    In case it helps, in WPForms Lite, we have a built-in anti-spam option which is enabled by default in the form builder > Settings > General (see screenshot here).

    We also have integration with Google’s free reCAPTCHA service. In case it helps, here’s a detailed tutorial on how to set up reCAPTCHA in WPForms.

    And if you’d prefer not to use reCAPTCHA, we have another anti-spam protection feature, hCaptcha. This is a good option if you’d prefer not to sign up for Google’s reCAPTCHA service. Within your forms, hCaptcha will display a checkbox asking users to prove they’re human (much like Google’s v2 Checkbox reCAPTCHA). We have a detailed guide for setting up hCaptcha.

    Alternatively, you can consider the third-party plugins such as WordPress Zero Spam or Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk which work out of the box to protect your forms against spam.

    And if you need help with WPForms Lite, please feel welcome to post in our WPForms Lite support forum.

    Thank you.

    r0bertwp

    (@r0bertwp)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Same here @dsharma03

    Installed a wee while back. Got flooded with spam. Foreign language stuff. Google translate detects it’s Russian with messages along the lines of what @tombruner had

    Hi, this is Irina. I am sending you my intimate photos as I promised. [a tiny url]you

    Only worse. Unrepeatable spam related to illegal x-rated content.

    So I blocked .ru in Cloudflare.

    Obviously, it doesn’t stop VPNs from getting through.

    Installed WP Mail SMTP. Discovered (during the setup) that I only had SPF records set. Went and added the DMARC and DKIM records. The main thing that did was authenticated spoofed emails as being sent from my email address. So much for that.

    It has slowed down the amount of spam from about 10 a day to a couple.

    Weirdly, it’s only one form that gets plagued with spam. The home page. I have WP forms on four pages, but every piece of spam comes from the WPForm on the home page. The rest are fine.

    Any ideas?

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by r0bertwp.
    • This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by r0bertwp. Reason: correct "contact form" to "WPform"
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