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Unwanted submissions

awc109 29 Aug, 2017
Hi
Was curious if other users see this issue. All of my published chronoforms seem to get a lot of spam traffic and submission. I use captcha on the form so I dont believe they are bots but all of them appear to originate outside the US. Any thoughts on how to stop this?
Thx
AC
GreyHead 30 Aug, 2017
Hi AC,

If you have not already done so please check that the Captcha is set up correctly and works.

Please see this FAQ

Bob
awc109 31 Aug, 2017
Thanks for the response. I do have captcha enabled on the with the on fail event loop. One thing I noticed was a number of the unwanted submissions do not contain value in the database table for fields that are required on the form. This would lead me to believe they are bots. Agreed? Alos as fyi I have placed ip deny statements in my htaccess file for any nom US based IPs. Most of the unwanted submissions have non US values gor things such as address.
Max_admin 31 Aug, 2017
Hi AC,

You can use server validation or a security question to have extra protection, or even Google reCaptcha for maximum protection.

Best regards,
Max
Max, ChronoForms developer
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