Anti SPAM Techniques

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Hi Friends ::

One of our ProForm installs has been getting a lot of junk submissions lately even with CAPCHA active.

I've gone through our server logs and added some black lists based on IP info, but that only stopped the junk for about 24 until the spammer spoofed a new IP.

I'm wondering if you have any advice/best practices on how to mitigate this?

Thanks!

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thebigideasman
One of my websites had exactly the same issue and I only managed to stop it by taking an email newsletter sign-up form off the homepage as that was the main page being attacked and change the active captcha settings in Systems and Settings to reCAPTCHAhttp://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/recaptcha-captcha/... which is a free add-on.

So far, this seems to have done the trick. Hope that helps?

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