Spam Attacks

Hi,

I have been getting regular spam attacks as shown below from the following page:

http://www.swissvalleyrangersfc.co.uk/component/chronoforms5/?chronoform=signup

Subject: SVR Enquiry

Your Name
Child's Name
Child's Date of Birth
Email
Phone Number
Which Team em6
Where did you hear about us?
Additional Information https://buyessay.club/write-a-term-paper-for-me-cheap.html


IP: 188.191.20.192

They must be hacking the back end as they are by-passing the required fields and recapture.

Can anyone help me here please?

Many thanks

James

I am also getting a mail undelivered error to my mail box following each attack as shown below:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

easeoservices@gmail.com
host alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.28.27]
SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<easeoservices@gmail.com>:
450-4.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that
450-4.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered. Please resend your
450-4.2.1 message at a later time. If the user is able to receive mail at that
450-4.2.1 time, your message will be delivered. For more information, please
450-4.2.1 visit
450 4.2.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=ReceivingRate d26si2472432pfj.375 - gsmtp:
retry timeout exceeded

Hi James,

Try to add and configure the Google no captcha actions to your form, they should help stop the spam.

Best regards,
Max

Hi James,

You can also add serverside validation to check for one or two of the required fields.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thank you for your reply.

Can i just clarify, when adding the serverside validation I checked the FAQ which has the following advise:

In the boxes you add entries in the format of input_name:Error message.

Is the input_name the Field Name, Field ID or the Label?

Kind regards

James

Hi James,

It is the name - that is used pretty much everywhere in CFv5 as the identifier.

Bob

Hi Bob,

So in my case I have the system created value called: text1 in the Field Name:

So my code should look like this:

text1:This field must not be empty
text2:This field must not be empty

Is that correct?

Many thanks

James

Hi James,

Yes, just like that . . . but I do recommend that you give your inputs more meaningful names as that can make it much simpler when you come back to your form code later.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thank you for your help. Hopefully this will help stopped the spam.

Kind regards

James