Title: URL in Message
Last modified: August 22, 2018

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# URL in Message

 *  [bb2009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bb2009/)
 * (@bb2009)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-in-message/)
 * Hi,
 * I have added Honeypot, Real Simple Captcha and Askimet to my site and spam is
   getting through from using real email addresses – each one posts a URL in the
   message though. Is there a way to stop messages being sent with a URL in?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-in-message/#post-10615856)
 * Akismet uses the URL submitted with a form as part of it’s spam detection algorithm
   if available, so you are probably doing all you can to restrict form spam at 
   this stage.
 * I’ve switched from Really Simple CAPTCHA (which requires a separate plugin) to
   ReCAPTCHA (which is now included directly within CF7) & found this is somewhat
   more effective & less difficult to set up & use IMO.
 * I’ve found CF7 Honeypot has the most significant effect but I still get form 
   spam every day.
 * I suspect that CF7, because of it’s popularity, is targeted by form spammers &
   other hackers.
 * Lately I’ve been collecting the form submitters IP using the [Special Mail Tag](https://contactform7.com/special-mail-tags/)[
   _remote_ip] in each form and blocking these IP’s in WordFence.
 *  [ahamaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahamaton/)
 * (@ahamaton)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-in-message/#post-10616511)
 * Hi Neil, I’m being alerted with updates to this forum as well, do you know why?
 * Thanks
 * Andrew

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