Spammers (4.Viewing)

I have a pretty generic contact page lander set up for some of my domains. Lately it's been getting upwards of 20,000 daily form submissions that fail the hidden recaptcha protection. On one hand, the recaptcha works pretty good. On the other hand, it pisses me off as a waste of resources by scum of the earth trolls. I periodically review my logs of failed attempts, sort & count the IP addresses, then permanently block the prolific offender IPs.

I just blocked a handful of IP's which accounted for the majority of those failed submissions.

Russian IP addresses, all of them. Putin's scammer army hard at work.

If you know how, block the following:

46.161.11.0/24
37.139.53.81
37.139.53.86

If you use iptables:

/usr/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s 46.161.11.0/24 -j DROP
/usr/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s 37.139.53.81 -j DROP
/usr/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s 37.139.53.86 -j DROP

You should see how much spam I get from the dn.ca contact form.

The CONTACT US link at the bottom right of every page.
It is meant for people without accounts or members that cannot log in.

The google recaptcha I have is now almost useless.

Strange. I don’t have any spam issues on my contact page. Unless you count the ridiculous inquiries as spam…

theinvestor said:

Strange. I don’t have any spam issues on my contact page. Unless you count the ridiculous inquiries as spam…

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I think you use wix right?

They have spam protection built in, by comparison rob uses some fairly basic code.

Yes it’s wix and never had any issues.

theinvestor said:

Yes it’s wix and never had any issues.

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Same here, my contact form has never had a single spam because it requires so much information to submit.

Every field is mandatory to be filled out or it will not submit.