Spam email through contact form

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  callflowbusiness · Member · Feb 16, 2018 at 4:33 pm

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  I have a contact form in my WordPress.com hosted site (https://callflowbusiness.com/hablemos/) and I have been receiving one-line spam emails for the past three days (for example: “quiero ayudar a la gente a ser más feliz”). How can I get this to stop?? All the solutions I find online are for people that have a Business plan and I only have a Personal plan. Help, please!

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  flavbob · Member · Feb 16, 2018 at 5:21 pm

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  Hi callflowbusiness,

  Are you using the built-in contact form in the page editor?
  If so, I found this article looking in the help site.

  In a nutshell:
  1) Go to your admin interface, in the feedback section (https://callflowbusiness.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=feedback)
  2) Mark the sender as spam

  That may solve the problem. Let me know :)

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  callflowbusiness · Member · Feb 16, 2018 at 6:28 pm

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  Hi wpis1337,

  Thank you for your help but sadly that’s not the solution I’m looking for. The spam emails are coming from different accounts and I don’t want to have to block each one when it’s likely it won’t be that same one emailing again anyways.

  Is there a way to run a captcha on the standard WordPress contact form or something that does a similar job?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 16, 2018 at 6:31 pm

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  Is there a way to run a captcha on the standard WordPress contact form or something that does a similar job?

  No. You will have to mark each spam response as spam so Akismet learns to identify it as such.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/forms/contact-form/#feedback-management