[support] Captcha and spam issues

[Earnie Boyd]

Maybe one of these suggestions will help?

http://bit.ly/118LreP

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Pia Oliver <pia at piasworld.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
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