• Sure it’s easy to stop bots with reCaptcha and a HoneyPot but my problem was caused real people registering and fill out my forms with spam and fake email addresses or someone else’s legit email address. My email host was getting spam complaints and they gave me a warning about the number of bounced emails I was sending. I started searching forums and found people saying to “give CleanTalk a try.” So, here is what I did. Since Google’s V3 reCaptcha and the anti-spam plugin for Woocommerce registration form and Elementor forms didn’t stop real people with bad intentions, I deleted both of them. Then I installed CleanTalk. My intent was to see much spam and bounces this plugin let through in 1 week. Well, after 2 days I notice no bad actors were successful in spamming my forms. Now the real test, put ClearTalk on 5 of my websites and continue monitoring my forms for spam and fake registrations. The results after 7 days were clean form submissions and real legit users registering, while blocking the bad guys. Checking the ClearTalk log showed the intercepted bad actors and bots and their stupid spam messages. I just signed up for 3 years of premium CleanTalk.

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