Contact Form Got Spammed

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I manage a very small website where the contact form was more or less ignored for several months and during that time there were about 3800 spam comments added. This is basically the contact us form that comes with the original installation of Concrete5.8+.

I have looked at the dashboard and can't seem to find a way to bulk delete the responses.

Thanks!

sogren
 
stewblack23 replied on at Permalink Reply
stewblack23
Make a backup of you site. Making a local copy of your site on your computer. Then once the site is up and running go into the database and see what database tables the entries are being written too. Then mass delete the entries within that table. Make sure the site is fully operation once you have deleted all the entries. After that look in the marketplace for a recaptcha add on and add it to the site form. That will help avoid site future span messages.
PineCreativeLabs replied on at Permalink Reply
PineCreativeLabs
Most spambots look for generic contact forms to submit to. To help prevent too many spam submissions, you may want to consider using a CAPTCHA.
Also, you might want to consider adding an additional input field, one that a bot might not pick up on.
blinkdesign replied on at Permalink Reply
blinkdesign
Use a «honeypot»: In your form/form handler, add a hidden dummy field to your form and name it eg. «VorName» and check if the field was submitted with any data. If yes, it is probably a robot. Visitors filling out the form do not see the field and therefore wouldn't have entered any data to it. Or else, you could add a hidden text field, positioned eg. absolute left -3000pixel.