Large amounts of spam suddenly coming through Contact form

Request Type: 
Work Request
Author: 
Victoria Misenti
Issue/Request: 

Hi.  I am getting a lot of spam all of a sudden, since last Saturday, from my contact form.  I’m not sure why.  When I looked up this issue in the forum, it seemed as though perhaps I may need a site refresh for an update of the reCAPTCHA module?  Do you think that would work or is something else going on?  I don’t actually know how to check whether reCAPTCHA is on the form but the module is turned on on my site. 

Since I originally wrote the above, I did some more research and I installed a math CAPTCHA.  I am hoping this will help, but I prefer not to have legitimate people need to take the extra step if they don’t have to.  What do you suggest?

Thanks!

Hi Victoria,

I’ve enabled reCAPTCHA on the form. This is better functionality than the default Math CAPTCHA.

Best,

Alyssa