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Experiencing Automated Form SPAM Submissions? Try the Honeypot Method to counter it.

in Eloqua 13 comments

Purpose:  Prevents bots from submitting Forms (fewer junk submissions).

 

Benefit:  It will be seamless to the User Experience (submitters will not have to fill out any extra fields).

 

Caveat:  This only prevents bots that fill out every field in a Form.

Method:

1)  Include a text field in your Form (hide it using css instead of through the native form property - use "display:none").

2)  Name the field something normally seen in forms that is not required for your current form (example:  "Address 3").

3)  Form Bots fill out every field they see in the code (if "Address 3" is submitted with a value then you know it's a bot).

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