MapleOne
Well-known member
I use both spaminator addons, have captcha enabled, everything possible and still get Contact Form spam.
The spaminator addons by OZZY have so far exceeded my expectations but on the contact form I was still getting spam, dozens a day now and to my best guess it was a human entering or the spaminator addon would have disallowed it.
So disabled both spaminator addons and added the verification word above for new registrations and on the contact form. I also disable the captcha and I got literally zero spam for a long time until someone manually added the word HUMAN and then I changed it to Canada and it stopped once more.
So I bookmarked .../admin.php?captcha-questions and in one lick I change the verification word and again that almost completely stops it.
However (and there is always a however)...
Lately a persistent spammer from India keeps hitting the form manually so I got creative doing this.....
Question #1: What is the Canadian province that starts and ends with the letter " O "
Answer: Ontario
Question #2: What is the Canadian province that starts and ends with the letter " A "
Answer: Alberta
Again that stopped the manual spammer instantly and since my site is for Canadians everyone knows the answers.
So from my experience changing the Captcha question and answer is the most effective way to stop spam of both registrations and on the contact form. If one goes through I go to my bookmark and change the QUESTION & ANSWER in seconds and the spam is zero again. On average it takes weeks before someone gets through and I have to do it again.