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TOPIC: A lot of spam despite recaptcha and hidden captcha

A lot of spam despite recaptcha and hidden captcha 5 years 2 months ago #39825

Hello,

I have one form which get a lot of Russian spam. Sometimes 20 submissions in one day.
In the form there is a Google reCAPTCHA as invisble and a hidden captcha field.
You can only start the form by making your choice in a dropdown field. The first line is 0|Make your choice.
In all the spam this dropdown is 0. So how can it open?

I don't no what I can do more to protect this form. Any suggestions. Thanks

My versions: Joomla 3.9.14 and RSFormPro 2.3.6
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A lot of spam despite recaptcha and hidden captcha 5 years 2 months ago #39846

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Same thing here. Last week I allready had 2 clients complaining getting spam through forms with reCAPTCHA enabled.
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A lot of spam despite recaptcha and hidden captcha 5 years 2 months ago #39851

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Hello,

Items in a dropdown field can be specified as "value|label" (by default if you do not use the pipeline character the value and the label are the same) - you can leave the value empty and just add the label. This way no value will actually be sent and the dropdown (which should be set as Required) will fail the validation, for example:

|Please choose an item
My other option
Another option

More on the Dropdown field here.
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Thank you. But how is this going to work on forms without a dropdown field?
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