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# codlord

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## Forum Replies Created

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Spambots sending blank emails via contact form – how?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/)
 *  Thread Starter [codlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codlord/)
 * (@codlord)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/#post-16944572)
 * The theme is one from [https://www.vwthemes.com/](https://www.vwthemes.com/)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Spambots sending blank emails via contact form – how?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/)
 *  Thread Starter [codlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codlord/)
 * (@codlord)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/#post-16943484)
 * Quite a few, which are as follows:
 * [https://github.com/ArthurGareginyan/all-meta-tags](https://github.com/ArthurGareginyan/all-meta-tags)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/)
 * [https://abdussamad.com/archives/567-Fixing-the-WordPress-Email-Return-Path-Header.html](https://abdussamad.com/archives/567-Fixing-the-WordPress-Email-Return-Path-Header.html)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/loginizer/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/loginizer/)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-seo-structured-data-schema/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-seo-structured-data-schema/)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/)
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Spambots sending blank emails via contact form – how?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/)
 *  Thread Starter [codlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codlord/)
 * (@codlord)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/#post-16941284)
 * It’s the spam protection tag for the Honeypot for Contact Form 7 plugin:
 * [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-honeypot/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-honeypot/)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Spambots sending blank emails via contact form – how?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/)
 *  Thread Starter [codlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codlord/)
 * (@codlord)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/#post-16940826)
 * `<label> Your Name [text* your-name maxlength:255] </label>`
 * <label> Your Email [email* your-email maxlength:320] </label>
 * `[honeypot telephone move-inline-css:true]`
 * `<label> Your Message [textarea* your-message minlength:50 maxlength:5000] </
   label>`
 * `[submit "Send"]`
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Spambots sending blank emails via contact form – how?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/)
 *  Thread Starter [codlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codlord/)
 * (@codlord)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/#post-16938115)
 * I finally got some blank spam form submissions today and I can confirm they are
   being sent by my contact form and are getting logged by Flamingo. And the message
   is completely blank. So I am still unsure how these bots are submitting blank
   forms when I have a “minlength” set.
 * Any ideas? Thanks
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Spambots sending blank emails via contact form – how?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/)
 *  Thread Starter [codlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codlord/)
 * (@codlord)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambots-sending-blank-emails-via-contact-form-how/#post-16914383)
 * Thanks for the replies, [@takayukister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
   the emails are definitely coming from the contact form as the emails have the
   form layout/content etc. I installed Flamingo anyway and will have to wait to
   see when I get the next blank spam.
 * I did think maybe the spambot is just sending a load of spaces but when I tried
   that my **Shield Security** plugin blocked me so still not sure how these bots
   are sending blank forms.
 * [@raytan12](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raytan12/) thanks I will take
   a look at WP Armour, although I already use the form Honeypot plugin and Shield
   Security.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] How to prevent international manual form submissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-international-manual-form-submissions/)
 *  [codlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codlord/)
 * (@codlord)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-international-manual-form-submissions/#post-16907601)
 * If the “spam” submissions have common keywords in them that are unlikely to be
   in genuine submissions then add them to WordPress Settings -> Discussion -> Disallowed
   Comment Keys.
 * I cut down a lot of spam this way – it may take some months to add relevant keywords
   but it works well.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Contact Form 7] Required Fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-fields-67/)
 *  [codlord](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codlord/)
 * (@codlord)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-fields-67/#post-16907591)
 * See the documentation here:
 * [https://contactform7.com/editing-form-template/](https://contactform7.com/editing-form-template/)
 * and:
 * [https://contactform7.com/tag-syntax/](https://contactform7.com/tag-syntax/)

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