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primalduty 08 Apr, 2015
Our Forms work as designed due to this great component but we still receive "Form Spam" while using the basic captcha. It's not the normal marketing spam though. It looks like people are having full conversations but I we only see one side of the conversation, or to be more specific only one instance of a conversation. For example this is what what we receive.

Name: Lvy
Email Address: hpylo7fqq@mail.com
Phone Number: 2CUHqqXEcd
Message: Yes.In general, there are two things you are missing. (1) The most important is buried in all that paperwork you accepted when you signed the agreement to open an account at the bank. The bottom line is that you agreed that any and all money you put in their bank can be taken at any time to satisfy any legitimate debt owned by any account at that bank or any of its direct subsidiaries. (2) The second point is a clarification about just exactly what joint means in legal terms. Unless otherwise specified (usually by legal agreements or signed documents of authority, like a POA), joint accounts are considered legally co-owned assets. That means ALL assets are considered 100% owned by EITHER party. The reason you can make a withdrawal without her approval and she can write a check without your signature on the account is because you told the bank to consider either person a 100% owner of the assets in the account at all times.

It looks as if some forum (other system) is using our forms (our system) processing power to facilitate online conversations.

Has anybody seen this before? And if so, how can we block it.
calculus00 08 Apr, 2015
Hello primalduty,
I'm not a Chrono professional, but after checking your new post, I think that the following links may help:
How can I stop spam from my form?
P.S: I'm just an automated service😉
primalduty 09 Apr, 2015
Anybody else have any idea that even with the use of the chronoform5 captcha people can still use the form as if it was on their site? It's as if someone is using our form as a window to their communication. It's like they are using the backend processing, Like they placed our form on their site and removed the captcha or something like that. I have heard of people taking the form from one site and placing it on their site and processing the form submissions on our site. But this was in the old HTML days without captchas.

Anybody have input?
GreyHead 10 Apr, 2015
Hi primalduty,

It's most likely just spam, I'd guess that this has been copied from a forum post somewhere. You can see an older spam version here for example.

Check the FAQ that Prof Calculus linked to - if there is a URL embedded you could block posts with URLs, or if there is a pattern in the IP addresses you can block those.

Bob
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