Contact Us Spam
 

Dear Everyone,

I currently get a lot of contact us spam. It usually looks like this:
Nice...

*** Spam text removed ***

Would anyone have an idea how to get rid of this or at least put some sort of image verification setting on it. Thanks.

Unless you want to help this spammer it is better not to post the text of his spam. ;)

AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Site Name / URL / Contact Details -> Allow Unregistered Users to use 'Contact Us'

What vb version are you suing? 3.7.0 beta 4 now has the ability to add captcha to it and it works great. You can also set up a profile field question for the contact us so bots can't use it. That you can do even in 3.5.4 so it's good all the way up.

vBulletin 3.6 already has the buildin option to have a CAPTCHA on the Contact Us, maybe even already in 3.5.

No need for profile fields or such.

It wasn't in 3.5.4 and since I jumped straight to 3.7.0 beta 3, I wasn't sure about any versions in between. All he has to do then is get his public and private CAPTCHA keys (which are free) and he is all set.

reCAPTCHA is a bit wonky for me...I myself would stick with normal CAPTCHA for the moment.

I found the NoSpam hack brought my Contact Us spam to standstill, as it was getting pretty bad. I use in combo with the CAPTCHA and haven't had to disable unregistered users from accessing it. The reason being, if there's a registration problem, there's not a lot of other ways to get a hold of me.

I believe a NoSpam-type modification has become standard in vBulletin as of 3.7.

Yes, it has. ;)


reCAPTCHA works great on 3.7.0 beta 4. I haven't had a problem with it yet, knock on wood.

reCAPTCHA lets me put in any gibberish and still lets me through.