Spammers not filling in honeypot field

  • Resolved Florence

    (@floortjahh)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there! I’m noticing I’m still getting spam (mostly “marketing” opportunities). The spammers are not filling in the honeypot field (which I’ve named ‘website’) so spam is still getting through. What’s wrong? Should I give the field another name?

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  • Hey @floortjahh — looking at the site, there doesn’t appear to be any issues with how you have it installed. Perhaps if it’s mostly marketing companies, I would try changing “website” to “email”, as it’s more likely they want you to reply directly to them than visit a website. There are a couple other options you might want to try — including

    It could also be that the spam isn’t bot-generated. Manual spammers wouldn’t fill in the honeypot field, as it is designed to be invisible to humans.

    You may also want to try the “Move inline CSS (optional)” setting. It’s a checkbox when you generate the honeypot shortcode.

    Thread Starter Florence

    (@floortjahh)

    I’ll give that a go. Thank you!

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