Category: Anti-Spam

Awesome Support Forms Spam Protection for WordPress
CleanTalk added spam protection for Awesome Support using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using this type of forms be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect all your contact forms from spam.

Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be Awesome Support but also many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Awesome Support

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New.

Then enter «CleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».

After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.

After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

That’s it! From now you How to completely protect your Contact Forms from spam.

How to check Awesome Support Spam Protection

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Contact Forms by using a test email s @ cleantalk.org (without spaces). First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab. Fill in all the required form fields and send a form.

After submitting the form, you will see a block message about the block on the form submission.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your CleanTalk account – Register now and protect your Contact Forms from spam in 5 minutes

Update

The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

Additional features
- CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
- Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
- Smart 99% protection against spambots.
- Always online – 24/7 technical support.
- Logs, SpamFireWall, personal lists, country filters, stop-words, and many others.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
April 13, 2025
CleanTalk Anti-Spam is now available for Fluent Forms users
I’d love to announce that CleanTalk Anti-Spam technology is now available to Fluent Forms users as a built-in Anti-Spam solution.

You can find it under Settings,
```
WordPress console -> Fluent Forms -> Global settings -> Security -> CleanTalk
```
CleanTalk with Fluent forms supports almost same stack of technologies like native Anti-Spam plugin by CleanTalk,
- Automated filtration bots.
- Filter spammers by IP, Email, IP networks.
- Real-time email verification for existence, fake or real email.
- Anti-Spam logs up to 45 days.
- Tech support, 27/7.
- Customize message to forbidden visitors.
- Delegate control of your websites to other accounts at CleanTalk.org.
We’ve been testing this integration since January 6, 2025, it’s firm and stable by now. Anyway, if you have any questions or issues, just drop a message in the comment section down below.

In order to activate the protection, add a new website to the Dashboard or sign up for an account.
April 11, 2025
testing@example.com and test@example.com Are Sending Spam and Malicious Requests – How to Stop Them

If you have got a lots of spam or suspicious messages from testing@example.com or test@example.com lately? You’re not alone — these email addresses are widely used by spammers and hackers for sending spam, phishing attempts, and even code injection attacks.

At CleanTalk Anti-Spam, we’ve seen tons of spam originating from these addresses, every day we block approximately 110,000 requests to our clients’ websites from testing @example.com. So they’ve been on our blacklist for quite some time already:

At CleanTalk, we’ve been filtering out spam for a long time, and these two addresses have been stuck on our blacklist for a while now:

testing@example.com on CleanTalk blocklist

test@example.com on CleanTalk blocklist

People online are already talking about issues with these emails in several forums and communities:

WpForo Community discussion

Reddit cybersecurity thread

ConcreteCMS forum report

Shopware forum on injection attempts

Modified-shop.org forum topic

How to Protect Your Website From Spam and Malicious Requests
The easiest way to protect your site from spam attacks is using CleanTalk Anti-Spam. It automatically filters submissions in the background and blocks spammy emails and malicious bots from getting through to your website.

If you want even stronger protection, just block the whole *@example.com domain. Here’s how you do it in CleanTalk:
Use our instructions to install the anti-spam plugin on your site and connect it to the cloud, it takes no more than 5 minutes.
We have developed plugins for all popular CMS, if your site is not made using CMS, you can use our API or libraries.

Look at instruction How to use CleanTalk Personal BlackLists https://cleantalk.org/help/blacklist-usage.

Once this is done, you will no longer receive spam from example.com or any other.

Stay safe!

April 10, 2025

How to validate registrations using CleanTalk API with BVScript

Lately, we sometimes get questions like “The code samples on GitHub are written in C#, they don’t seem to convert to VB. Do you have any code sample for visual basic ?”

The good news is that now we have! The project below demonstrates how to use the Cleantalk API with VBScript to validate registrations. Feel free to ask any questions – we’re here to help.

Requirements

Register a Cleantalk account https://cleantalk.org/register?product=anti-spam
Obtain the access key from the CleanTalk account https://cleantalk.org/help/add-website

Usage

1. Place the code of Cleantalk class in your VBScript file.

 ```vbscript
 Class CleantalkClass
     Private auth_key
     Private check_message
     Private user_email
     Private user_ip
     Private user_name
     Private user_js_state
     Private user_submit_time
     Private form_event_token
     Private response
     Private verdict
     Private codes
     Private comment
     ... other class code
     ... other class code
   else
        validateResponse = false
   end if
     end function
  
  end class
 ```

2. Initialize the Cleantalk class instance, use your own access key when instantiating.

Dim Cleantalk : Set Cleantalk = (New CleantalkClass)("your_access_key", "check_newuser")

3. Set user data when the logic is ready to check the user.

Cleantalk.setUserEmail("stop_email@example.com")
Cleantalk.setUserIP("10.10.10.10")
Cleantalk.setUserName("John Doe")
Cleantalk.setUserJSState("1")
Cleantalk.setUserSubmitTime("5")
Cleantalk.setFormEventToken("a_32_symbols_event_token_value")

4. Send request to the API.

Send request to the API:

5. Validate the response.

If Cleantalk.validateResponse Then
    If Cleantalk.getVerdict = 1 Then
        WScript.Echo "Validation success. User is allowed."
    Else
        WScript.Echo "Validation success. User is blocked. Reason: " & Cleantalk.getCodes & " " & Cleantalk.getComment
    End If
Else
    WScript.Echo "Validation failed. Code: " & Cleantalk.getCodes & " Comment: " & Cleantalk.getComment
End If

Important! Do validation every time after response gathering.

Functions

setUserEmail(email)
setUserIP(ip)
setUserName(name)
setUserJSState(jsState)
setUserSubmitTime(submitTime)
setFormEventToken(eventToken)
sendRequest()
validateResponse()
getVerdict()
getCodes()
getComment()

Example

Dim Cleantalk : Set Cleantalk = (New CleantalkClass)("your_auth_key", "check_message")

Cleantalk.setUserEmail("user@example.com")
Cleantalk.setUserIP("192.168.1.1")
Cleantalk.setUserName("John Doe")
Cleantalk.setUserJSState("0")
Cleantalk.setUserSubmitTime("0")
Cleantalk.setFormEventToken("your_event_token")

Cleantalk.sendRequest

If Cleantalk.validateResponse Then
    If Cleantalk.getVerdict = 1 Then
        WScript.Echo "Validation success. User is allowed."
    Else
        WScript.Echo "Validation success. User is blocked. Reason: " & Cleantalk.getCodes & " " & Cleantalk.getComment
    End If
Else
    WScript.Echo "Validation failed. Code: " & Cleantalk.getCodes & " Comment: " & Cleantalk.getComment
End If

Implementing of BotDetector JavaScript library

To use the BotDetector JavaScript library, you need to include the script in the HTML of the page.

<script src="https://moderate.cleantalk.org/ct-bot-detector-wrapper.js"></script>

This script will automatically detect the form submission event and send the data to the Cleantalk API.

Please note, that the script does not perform any checks, just sends the user’s frontend data (like JavaScirpt state, mouse position etc.) to the API.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
   <head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <title>Register</title>
   <!--Bot-detector JS library wrapper. This script must be added to the HTML of the page.-->
   <script src="https://moderate.cleantalk.org/ct-bot-detector-wrapper.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <form method="post" action="your_form_handler_script">
      <label for="user_name">User name</label>
      <label for="user_email">User email</label>
      <input type="text" name="user_name" id="search_field" /> <br />
      <input type="text" name="user_email" id="search_field" /> <br />
      <input type="submit" />
   </form>
</body>
</html>

When you got added the script, the form will be updated with hidden event_token field after the script loaded. This field value you should transfer to VB Script

Once the token is provided in the API request, the VB Script will make the API takes in count the frontend data.

Make note, that data provided on event_token have the higher priority than the data set by optional VB Script setters.

April 9, 2025

Brave forms spam protection for WordPress
CleanTalk added spam protection for Brave Forms using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using this type of forms be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect all your contact forms from spam.

Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be Brave Forms but also many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Brave Builder

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New.

Then enter «CleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».

After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.

After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

That’s it! From now you How to completely protect your Contact Forms from spam.

How to check Brave Forms Spam Protection

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Contact Forms by using a test email s @ cleantalk.org (without spaces). First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab. Fill in all the required form fields and send a form. After submitting the form, you will see a block message about the block on the form submission.

brave

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your CleanTalk account – Register now and protect your Contact Forms from spam in 5 minutes

Update

The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

Additional features
- CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
- Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
- Smart 99% protection against spambots.
- Always online – 24/7 technical support.
- Logs, SpamFireWall, personal lists, country filters, stop-words, and many others.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
April 2, 2025
New Customization Options for Contacts Encoder Phrases in CleanTalk Anti-Spam
We’re excited to introduce a new feature in CleanTalk’s Anti-Spam plugin:
custom phrase settings for the Contacts Encoder.

Starting with version 6.52, you can now easily customize the default messages shown during the contact data encoding and decoding process — making the user experience better aligned with your website’s tone and style.

You can edit the following three phrases:
- “The magic is on the way, please wait for a few seconds!”
  Shown while decoding is in progress
- “The original one is”
  Shown right before revealing the contact information
- “Decoding the contact data, let us a few seconds to finish.”
  Displayed while processing contact decryption
These options are available in the plugin’s Contacts Encoder settings, under the Data Processing tab.

Make your contact protection both invisible to bots and friendly to users — now in your own words.

How It Works

You can customize the Contacts Encoder messages by adding a few simple code snippets to your site’s functions.php file.
For step-by-step instructions, check the guide [here].

This update helps you create a more personalized and user-friendly experience — while still protecting your contact data from bots and crawlers.
March 25, 2025
FiboSearch Spam Protection
CleanTalk added spam protection for FiboSearch Search Forms for WooCommerce in the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using search forms be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect all your contact forms from spam.

Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be FiboSearch but also many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download FiboSearch

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New.

Then enter «CleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».

After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.

After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

That’s it! From now you How to completely protect your FiboSearch from spam.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your CleanTalk account – Register now and protect your Contact Forms from spam in 5 minutes

Additional features
- CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedback, contacts and reviews.
- Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
- Smart 99% protection against spambots.
- Always online – 24/7 technical support.
- Logs, SpamFireWall, personal lists, country filters, stop-words, and many others.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
February 23, 2025
Our client’s review: NANIROSSI.IT

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February 3, 2025
Our client’s review: UPWITHDOWN.BG

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Perfect!

I tested so many plugins to stop spam registrations but only CleanTalk worked!!!

Just install it and spam stopped immediately.

Thank you so much!!!

December 16, 2024
Decorate your website forms for the holidays

New Year is coming and we’ve got some holiday spirit news for you!

We are launching an option for the Anti-Spam plugin, which adds special designs for your WordPress websites’ standard comment forms, including holiday designs. Not only does this attract attention in your comment form, but it also is an active protection against bots and strengthens your site’s defense.

We are actively working on this option and you can check an example of the form design in the comments below this post. The option is currently in beta but is available in the Anti-Spam plugin starting from version 6.47, which has already been released.

Please write, what you think about the option in the comments below, we really want your opinion.

How to enable decorated forms

Step 1: Go to the Anti-Spam plugin Settings and click on the Advanced settings link.

Step 2: Enable the Holiday form decoration option by switching it to on. Then press the Save changes button.

Step 3: Check the result – go to your site and see if the decoration works well. If not – please let us know in the comments below this post.

Post update Feb 02 2025. Announcement: Holiday Form Decoration Feature Removal Due to Low Demand

December 12, 2024