Fraud Payments

  • Resolved sbenji

    (@sbenji)


    2 years, 9 months ago

    I just had a huge problem, where I got lots of fraud payments (multiple per minute, probably bots). Most were blocked by Stripe, but some Spam payments got through. I do not know what the spammers scheme is, as they always send 2 USD with gmail accounts that do not exist.

    The problem was, that deactivating the fluent forms payment form would not work, I still got those spam payments through. The only thing that now seemed to work is to delete the form completely and to disconnect my Stripe account from fluent forms.

    Why did deactivating the form not stop the fraud payments? And did those payments got through because I only have honeypot activated, but no captcha?

    How can this be prevented in the future? Would limiting attempts from the same ID help? And does your Stripe integration work with the Address Verification Service?

    Thank you for your help.

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  • Plugin Support Tahmid ul Karim

    (@tahmidulkarim)

    Hello @sbenji,

    If you are using live payment then you shouldn’t get any spam payments. If you are in stripe test mode then anyone can submit the form.

    I would recommend you to use ReCaptcha in order to prevent spam submission. Also, if you are getting all the spam submissions from a specific IP then you can block that IP from the form settings.

    Thank you.

    Thread Starter sbenji

    (@sbenji)

    Thank you @tahmidulkarim,

    I was using live payments, but somehow a bot was able to submit on the payment form. And disabling the form in the backend did not stop it, only deleting the form.

    I will try to block the IP and use hCaptcha, and report back, if needed.

    Best wishes
    Ben

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