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  1. #1
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    getting crushed with russian spam Help.

    Hey, I have a finance business and on my home page i have a request for information page. .

    I am getting hundreds of filled in requests from somewhere in russian. Any idea how i can block these requests. It is just cunting up my inbox. .

    Name Ставим Вас в известность об одобрении выдать Вам некую сумму. Обезопасьте себя! сейчас же уточнить детали перейдя на главную страницу сервиса в момент до 2 дней.Не упустите момент пока Ваш доступ в систему не заблокирован!Зайти в систему: http://tinyurl.com/yb5hahhj

    Phone 85312525368
    Email molovanzor@icloud.com

    Comments Сообщаем Вам о том что принят вердикт обеспечить Вам некую сумму. Обезопасьте себя! немедля разбираться с подробностями пройдя на главную страницу нашего сервиса в течение 30 минут.Не упустите момент . В случае просрочки Ваш доступ в систему будет заблокирован!Зайти в систему: http://tinyurl.com/ya85hlr8

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    Pay stuckathuntermtn to do it.

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    I see what you were doing during outbreak.

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    How are you creating the submission form?

    There are plenty of ways of making them bot proof.
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    It's just instructions on how to complete your state's mail in ballot. As soon as you submit your vote for Trump the spam will stop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PNWbrit View Post
    How are you creating the submission form?

    There are plenty of ways of making them bot proof.
    My web guy did it long ago. Have no idea how to fix it.

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    Is your contact form driven by a Wordpress plugin?

    Mainly to prime your thinking, here's an article on controlling spam on Contact Form 7 (a popular Wordpress plugin): https://barn2.co.uk/stop-contact-form-7-spam/

    If not Wordpress, then never mind.

    ... Thom
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    Quote Originally Posted by skideeppow View Post
    My web guy did it long ago. Have no idea how to fix it.
    If you have "a web guy" he should know how to do it.

    10-15 minutes.
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    And there will come a day when our ancestors look back...........

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    Mebee its hot Russian chicks that want to date you?
    watch out for snakes

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    Web guy did it years ago and has never kept up with the technology and your form is open season for bot submissions. Many ways to correct the real problem- web site form redo- add a Captcha response, is one of the ways to stop the Bots. So is your web guy still around or do you need a new one?

    Plenty of other tricks that are out there with fill in form designs and scripts and some sort of challenge that determine they are a human (and hopefully you also do some sort of reliable spam filtering to as an example block messages from countries you do not want to do business with (Russian, North Korean, Nigerian, and a long list the others out there...) But you have to be careful that you do not block legitimate requests also.

    Or just go into the Russian Bride business instead... you have an in already in networking Russian contacts (scammers).

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