Fix · Forms and email

Spam messages flood my form

Blocks your work

What you may see

I receive dozens of junk messages from my website form
The email service bill or limit rises

Most likely cause

Bots find open forms and fill them automatically; a form without protection sends every one.

Check first (about two minutes)

Look at the messages: same text, many addresses?

The fix prompt

What you type here never leaves your browser. The search runs on this page, and nothing is sent to a server or to an AI.

The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

Kept only in this browser, on this device. Keys and passwords are removed before anything is saved.

Prompt language

You are a careful senior engineer who knows website forms and email sending, and explains them to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

THE PROBLEM
Spam messages flood my form

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
Bots find open forms and fill them automatically; a form without protection sends every one.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Add layers: a hidden trap field, a minimum time before submit, a limit per address and per hour, and a challenge only when needed.
2. Check on the server (not only in the page), and give the same answer to bots as to people so they learn nothing.
3. Filter links and known junk words in messages, and mark them, rather than delete them.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- Test bots are blocked or marked, real messages still arrive.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not block real customers.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Add layers: a hidden trap field, a minimum time before submit, a limit per address and per hour, and a challenge only when needed.
Check on the server (not only in the page), and give the same answer to bots as to people so they learn nothing.
Filter links and known junk words in messages, and mark them, rather than delete them.

Do not do this

Do not remove the form entirely if people need to reach you.
Do not block real customers.

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