How to stop contact form spammers?

[doogie88]

I have a lot of new people on my site so I don't want to remove that option all together, but 90% of my contact form/feedback is garbage spam. How can I stop the spam?

[da420]

I use the sendmessage.php w/ captcha enabled instead of having the email on the bottom link. I was getting about 10 spam emails a day with my email at the bottom, when I changed to sendmessage.php the spam stopped.

[doogie88]

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand, what would I have to do?

[da420]

in vBOptions there's an option to set the contact us address to whatever you want. Choose sendmessage.php there instead of your contact email address, and make sure captcha is enabled.

[aberg]

If you can use Imagemagick for Image Verification.
( vboptions-Image Settings - Image Verification Library).

[theFAILURE]

To me the NoSpam alternative to the captcha image is the way to go.

For a couple months now, not 1 spammer has been able to register, and I have no contact us email spam.

Easy to install, and effective. You do not even need the captcha system any longer:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=124828

[Shazz]

The image verification stopped about everyone of mine.. Default in vBOptions

[theFAILURE]

Spam bots can get by captcha images. Your lucky

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by theFAILURE

Spam bots can get by captcha images. Your lucky

Yea I know, I guess my bots were weak

[doogie88]

I use: sendmessage.php
And I also use image verification.
I am still getting a bunch every day.

**Okay, I just switched on image verification for sendmessage, let's see if that works.