Stop end users spamming enquiries

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  • September 12, 2016 at 10:02 am #264640

    oldmankit
    Buyer
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    Someone just spammed about fifty of the people listed on my directory site. It looks like he clicked on the send enquiry buttons of each listing, and over the space of 15 minutes sent the same request to everyone. It looks like an attempted scam.

    Is there any way to prevent this? Some kind of mechnanism preventing a user from sending, say, 10 enquiries per hour? Or a captcha?

    September 12, 2016 at 10:09 am #264641

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    Our captcha addon which is included in your membership can be enabled on those forms https://wpgeodirectory.com/downloads/gd-recaptcha/

    Thanks,

    Stiofan

    September 12, 2016 at 6:31 pm #265022

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    Hi,

    If that is done manually by a real person and not a bot, there is no way to prevent it.

    Thanks

    September 13, 2016 at 10:35 am #265304

    oldmankit
    Buyer
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    Thank you very much Stiofan and Paolo. I’m pretty sure it was a human rather than a bot.

    I guess that using a Capthca would at least slow the human down, and make them less likely to bother.

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