Spam messages despite the captcha

Hello,

I use chorforms V5 for a while now and since few months I start getting spam message with the form despite the captcha.
For example this morning I received two of them here the kind of message I get :

Nom wnowbyengfy 
Email bfpput@wvtfwv.com 
Sujet qLFTSirHW 
Votre message f53kUz owkmzgkiozyp, uzxiwstndfnt, [link=http://xjpxgyxzduzp.com/]xjpxgyxzduzp[/link], http://khmqdosrylzz.com/ 
IP: 46.161.9.31 

Nom asnerntbm3u 
Email gaff@your-free-mail.bid  
Sujet  
Votre message http://genericeffexor.date/ - effexor http://acyclovir.website/ - acyclovir http://amoxil.tech/ - amoxil http://buyproscar.men/ - proscar price  
IP: 46.161.9.24 

Does anyone know why I get those ? Am I wrong thinking if I say that if I have a captcha I shouldn't get spam message ? Did I miss doing something in my form ? How can I block those kind of message ?

Thanks In advance for your help

Hi moi34,

The IP address is a Moscow one. It looks like fairly standard spam so maybe your Captcha is not configured correctly? Or possibly they are human spammers who can pass a Captcha.

I would add a serverside check to block this IP address and possibly to block any messages with http:// in them

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thanks a lot for your quick answer.
I am not sure how to add a serverside check to block this ip and to block any message with http://
Could you give me some hint about how to do it ? Would be great.

Thanks again
Moi34

Hi Moi34,

Please see this FAQ and this one

Bob

Hello again,

I've read the link you gave me and I understood that I need to block the Ip adress and check if there is http:// in the message but I couldn't understand how to do it.
To block a specific ip adress I have to add this kind of code in my form

<?php
$banned_ips = array(
  '46.161.9.1',
  46.161.9.999'
);
$ip_address = JRequest::getString( 'REMOTE_ADDR', '', 'server' );
if ( in_array($ip_address, $banned_ips) ) {
  return "You are not authorized to use this service!";
}
?>

but where and how ?
Right now my form looks like the attached image

can you give more details to what I should do ?

thanks in advance

Hi GreyHead,

Thanks a lot for your help since I added an Even Loop action in the On Faile event I didn't had another mail from those IP.

Thanks again
Have a good day
Moi34