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1. gillespieza
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm suddenly getting a flood of spam through my contact form (plugin: Contact Form 7). I have Akismet installed, and I am using the Akismet tags in the contact form. I have tested that it works using the test case viagra-test-123, which fails as expected.

   However, I am getting flooded with odd spam messages. They don't contain any URLs or advertising - just random garbage and typos. Comments are not enabled, so there is no point to this (ie, they won't be approved later):

   Name: Katherine
   Email: majid@physics.ubc.ca
   Phone: eFHpfVJQvXGlhMN
   Property Name: DCyKYpREtxdGkmlxoe
   Number of guests: ArAuZWwKkrfmidfY
   Check in: TIQCegJtQJyxZb
   Check out: mpSbTjCugAHaI
   Other properties: nPnrFtXXADLMDgRLDeb
   Budget: zkQshOZbpJEk
   Your message: Never seen a bteetr post! ICOCBW
   Additional notes: Never seen a bteetr post! ICOCBW

2. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Make sure to report these back as missed spam. I haven't checked if the Contact Form 7 Akismet integration supports this or not, if it doesn't it should :-)

3. gillespieza
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for your reply :)

   But there doesn't seem to be any option to mark something as missed spam - these aren't comments that are being held back for moderation, they are contact form submissions. The Akismet panel only seems to list the stats - no options to mark things as ham or missed spam.

4. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'd contact the Contact Form 7 devs then and ask them to add that ability. The API call to submit missed spam is detailed at http://akismet.com/development/api/#submit-spam and they are always welcome to contact us - http://akismet.com/contact/ - if they have any questions/concerns.

5. gillespieza
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks - I'll post it as a feature request :)

6. Takayuki Miyoshi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi Joseph. I'm the developer of the Contact Form 7. Thank you for the advice. I'll try to add the ability in the future release.

7. razorteeth
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Takayuki-san,

   We are having the exact same issue on our company website and my boss asked me to look into this issue. Now, I'm glad that you'll try to add that new ability in the future release but what would you suggest I should do in the mean time?

   I'm already using following plugins of Akismet, Bad Behavior, and Cookies for Comments and those spams are still getting through.

   Thanks in advance.

8. gillespieza
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @razorteeth - I solved it by adding a non-mathematics based quiz to my form. With questions like: "What is the second to last word of this sentence" and "How many colours in the rainbow", etc

9. gverderamo
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   What killed me about this was I followed the tutorial and it doesn't give the tags for the Subject field or the Message field. It gives the tag for the URL field (which wasn't included in the default form...no biggie) but not these other two.

   So I test with the viagra thing in the name and it worked as advertised but when I put it in the message or subject it sent no problem.

   So now I have to look up the tags myself. OK, I am being lazy and all but my question is this...why isn't the akismet support enabled out of the box?

   Why isn't there a checkbox in the configuration utility "Enable Akismet Support" which would they auto add the tags?

   THAT WOULD BE GREAT! It would make things easier for novices who don't know how to do tags and lazy people like me who don't want to.

   The same would be nice for the CAPTCHA. Why is this not bundled and then just a simple checkbox to enable it?

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