[support] Captcha and spam issues

[Pia Oliver]

NO one is posting anything on the site. The robots (whatever form 
spammers come in, human or machines) manage to fill out forms and 
send them, which triggers a response email to the admin, for 
instance; a request for various appointments, etc. It's this response 
email that is the spam since it's only filled with gibberish, and/or 
porno/viagra/russian girls/ etc. And, in order to send that form a 
Captcha has to be met -this is the part I don't understand how it can 
be done by machines?

Pia

>One method I've used is to only give trusted users the privilege of
>posting.  I allow for the user to register and accept that
>registration based on the first logon mail link.  Then if they want to
>post, comment or wiki, I have another role set to assign to them based
>on asking me.  It keeps the SPAM off the site.
>
>The other method is to use a service such as Mollom.  See
>http://drupal.org/project/mollom for more.
>
>Earnie
>
>On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Pia Oliver <pia at piasworld.com> wrote:
>>  I have two live sites hosted at Hostgator.com and one development
>>  site. All 3 are drupal7 sites and all webforms, forms of any kind are
>>  set up with Captcha 7.x-1.0-beta2; Image Captcha 7.x-1.0-beta2.
>>
>>  All 3 sites's domains are registered at GoDaddy, the 2 live sites
>>  have the name servers pointing to  Hostgator. The dev site is under
>>  Hostgator's "domain" ie the numerical URL and "~/pia". The domain
>>  name is live  and an old site is still up there.
>>
>>  One live site uses email addresses in a combination, some ending in
>>  ".net" which are processed through Godaddy; the ".com" processed by
>>  Hostgator.
>>
>>  The sites were previously hosted at GoDaddy and had no issues with
>>  spam. Since hosting with Hostgator there is an ongoing issue with
>>  Spam. Even though the forms are **all** have Captchas enabled,
>>  submittals of the form are happening and I am getting floods of spam
>>  telling me that gibberish so and so has applied for an account.
>>  Occasionally, I get a filled out actual form where the different
>>  fields are filled out with gibberish or URLs pointing, mostly, to
>>  pornographic sites.
>>
>>  How is this happening? I have been told that robots are not capable
>>  of deciphering an image but possibly math. That's why I have changed
>>  every single one to image captchas.
>>
>>  I have talked with Hostgator numerous times, but so far they have not
>>  been able to solve this. I have even been warned by them of all the
>>  spam!
>>
>>  URLs   HeavenSentDesserts.com    RandallHouseRareBooks.com
>>
>>  thanks,
>>
>>  Pia
>>
>>
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