News - Getting spam instead of qualified enquiries from your website?

Many spammers use contact forms to send spam to the intended recipient. What we typically see is a badly designed enquiry form without form field verification, which is a magnet for spammers!

Apply these simple tried and tested solutions to protect your website against robot form submitters/ spambots and bring in more qualified enquiries.

One of the best commercial decisions you can make in 2009 is to work closely with your hosting company to protect your website from email abuse.

1. Create a form verification image (captcha) to verify that a real person
   submitted a form
2. Validate UK postcodes, telephone numbers including mobiles and block
   09 or 08 numbers
3. Verify that the form script is being run from your domain
4. Create a robots.txt file to block spambots
   
5. Check IP Address Blacklist Databases and manually Block IP addresses.
   This is an effective way of guarding against brute force attacks by banning
   undesired connections to a website or mail server
6. Download and test drive free anti-spam products such as Spam Assassin