Solicitors invited by WPForms to Solicit Subscribers

  • I finally succumbed to the ridiculous amount of SPAM that I was receiving from using WPForms and asked one of the spammers how they obtained such easy access to my form. They told me point blank: “Easy, WPForms purposefully programmed their code in a poor fashion in order to force you to pay more money to them to prevent people like me from autosending you email. I imagine you receive lots more email, right? Pay them more money to stop it, or find a more ethical software developer”

    Nothing but illegal garbage is received from the forms and WPForms should be disgraced for programing their software in such a poor fashion on purpose. Terrible business practice.

    I’ve had enough of unethical and immoral software developers and reported this app to my friends at the FTC for them to deal with. GOOD BYE, see you on TV some day for case study.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by foodgalore.
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  • Hey @mondofood,

    Thanks for sharing your feedback and I’d like to apologize for the trouble you ran into with spam received through WPForms.

    While WPForms does follow the latest WordPress guidelines when developing our plugin, spammers are getting smarter every day.

    However, we do have several options available to help combat spam available in all versions of our plugin.

    First, we have a built-in anti-spam protection feature which is enabled by default. This does not require any additional setup. When enabled in the form, it works in the background to protect your forms against spam. For more details about the anti-spam protection feature, please see our tutorial here: https://wpforms.com/docs/how-to-prevent-spam-in-wpforms/#anti-spam

    Additionally, we have other spam prevention options available WPForms:

    1. Google’s free reCAPTCHA service: This is a very popular option with built-in integration. Our integration includes 3 versions you can choose between: a traditional checkbox, “invisible”, and v3. You can find details on all of these in our tutorial here.

    2. 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 here.

    3. Block or allow specific email addresses: Using our Allowlist/Denylist feature, you can restrict or allow specific email addresses that can be used to submit your forms. We have a detailed tutorial for setting this up here.

    I apologize again for the spam you receive through your forms but I hope this helps!

    Thanks!

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