We were using MailChimp and recently migrated to Infusion. With a visually similar opt in form our sign ups went up eight to tenfold more per week. I was surprised, but of course happy. That was until we used the new addresses in a campaign and were warned of our high spam rate. Upon review, clea…

I would like to stop the spam also. We are receiving about 2 per hour from our forms that are embedded in a WordPress site. We are using Invisible Recaptcha. We even tried using jQuery Validation to make sure first name didn’t contain any numbers. In addition to data like “5a3c8babb862e” we also get…

We also are using the Infusion invisible reCaptcha, on a Twitter Bootstrap 3 based site. The thing that confuses me is that we were not receiving fake sign ups when we had the MailChimp subscribe form. It looks like 90-92% of the sign ups we received on the Infusion subscribe form are fake. If our…

Hi @Tim_Ballering , I very much doubt your site has been targeted (though it is of course on possibility you shouldn’t dismiss). I’ve actually been looking into this myself. Both to find an origin and a solution. While spam bots are created using many methods to get around spam prevention, it see…

I have the same problem! Why is this not a massive IS priority?

Right, I have a fix. Kind of. It is a step in the right direction. IS said: Create an action set that applies a tag. Something unique like “Spam contact.” Then, check the box to only run the action when certain rules are met. You can then create a rule for if the contacts name starts with “5” The…

Hi Cheryl, Thanks so much for this. It is an option. But I am loathed to pay $79 per month just to stop spam which is something I feel IS should do… I have also, managed to build a what I am calling a spam trap. Once I have tagged them, I use this tag in a decision diamond to ensure that they are…

@Alastair_Sanderson1 , yes there are lots of ways to deal with this. The PlusThis function doesn’t stop spam. You had asked about a way to automatically opt them out (unsubscribe.) There are no native functions that will automatically do that but what you described is a very good manual method …

Same issue and it’s now April 2019. Also I have a Mailchimp form on another site with NO issues. If Infusionsoft put half the effort into improving their product as they do in their marketing and branding I may stay but they ignore essentials like people getting more spam sign ups that legit. It’s a…

@Jayne_Stevenson , While Infusionsoft has a few things that they have control over, there are easily 30 times more conditions that happen outside of IS and while you may not be getting issues with Mailchimp, they are absolutely every bit as much affected overall. There are literally thousands of co…

Web form receiving mostly spam addresses

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Cheryl_Hunt (Cheryl Hunt) February 7, 2018, 1:12pm 7

We use PlusThis’s Automatic Unsubscribe feature to do this, @Alastair_Sanderson1.

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