Spam Emails – Honeypot Not Working

  • So the spam from the contact form picked up to the point that it may require moving to a different form plugin. I love the simplicity of creating forms with this plugin but the amount of spam is killing me with frustration.

    I know that the Pro version has the Google reCaptcha option but is there a working honey pot option instead? I noticed within the code that there is mention of it but the large amount of spam indicates that it is either not set up or is failing miserably. Yes we have the security question (2 digit option) included but it seems the bots are getting around all of these.

    I don’t really like the Google reCaptcha option because it will frustrate good valid users so I’m hoping you have a really good honey pot solution so users don’t get frustrated. Maybe the honey pot option could be added to the “Form Items” so users can choose where to add it within the overall form which may help in combating bots.

    Let me know either way so I can make an educated decision on how to move forward.

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  • I’d also love a follow answer to this. This plugin is great but the spam is killing my clients.

    I tried to build a honeypot field, hide it and wanted to check, if its max length is 1. Most bots fill random stuff, but vfb still manage to send those e-mails.

    I dont think there is any real solution. I think about switching to cf7.

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