"Form Spam Persists After Implementing Honeypot and reCAPTCHA"

[BBRALICK12]

Hello,

I’m experiencing a persistent issue with spam submissions on one of my forms. I’ve already implemented two of the most common solutions but am still seeing a significant number of spam entries getting through.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• Honeypot Field: I added a hidden honeypot field, which seems to have blocked some spam but is not fully effective.

• Netlify reCAPTCHA: I tried using Netlify’s reCAPTCHA integration, but spam submissions were still successfully getting past it.

I’ve since removed the reCAPTCHA to see if the honeypot alone would suffice, but the problem continues. I’m looking for any alternative solutions or best practices that the community has found effective for dealing with form spam on Netlify.

My site is [www.finimmerse.com], and the form name is [waitlist].

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[nathanmartin]

@BBRALICK12 You could search the forum for similar questions and their answers, purely as you’re likely to receive much the same answer.

See the discussion in this thread:

Sudden spike in spam on Netlify Forms (honeypot + reCAPTCHA) – loumarc.netlify.app

When using ReCaptcha, the Akismet spam detection is automatically disabled. So if bots and spammers are surpassing ReCaptcha on your website, unfortunately there’s nothing that can be done. I don’t believe switching the captcha provider would essentially fix that, but if you think so, as I mentioned in that post, you can implement and Edge Function to use hcaptcha or any other spam detection tool that you’d like.

Also this thread:

Support for hCaptcha in Netlify Forms

You can implement it yourself using Edge Functions. For every POST request, you can validate the hcaptcha response before passing context.next() in Edge Functions.