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Hi,
I get a regular supply of spam through my contact form, despite having captcha enabled. I came across a suggested solution of including a text input field with regex validation to ensure nothing is entered in the field and hide that field using CSS so I tried that too. Within 5 minutes of me making this form live I got another spam message through the contact form.

So, why does captcha not work to stop the messages (I can't believe someone actually manually goes to my form and enters the junk I get)?

Why doesn't this new field I added in work to stop the robots if that is what it is?

This is the form: https://footballiqacademy.com/index.php ... ct-us-form (right now I have captcha disabled)

Some tutorials with alternatives.

The honeypot feature:
https://cmscanbesimple.org/blog/honeypo ... ormbuilder

The hide form feature:
https://cmscanbesimple.org/blog/additio ... ook-module

Regards, Rolf

No one solution is going to prevent all spam, it's a continual battle against both bots and humans (yes, there are "companies" that pay employees to sit and solve captchas all day). Using the tools available, and staying on top of current advice from Google et al, is all you can do.

Thanks the HoneyPot method is basically what I had done and almost immediately after got another spam form submission. I'll leave the Captcha on and include this hidden field that must be empty and monitor it for a week or more to see how it goes.