Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JS
A nice technique to prevent simple bots from harvesting your email address.
Read more [rouninmedia.github.io]
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The 6 Stages of Spam Protection
Jeffrey Way shares the strategies he uses to combat spam on the Laracasts forum.
Read more [laracasts.com]
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Preventing spam submitted through forms original
When adding a form to a public site, there's a risk that spam bots will try to submit it with fake values. We recently released a new package, called laravel-honeypot, that can detect these spammy requests. How honeypots work The majority of spam bots are pretty dumb. You can thwart most of them by…
Dissecting a spammer’s spam script
Let’s take a look at a PHP script used to send spam. These types of scripts run on servers all over the world and might give you some insight into a spammer’s dedication to annoy the hell out of you. ... One of the WordPress sites on a shared hosting web server I manage was infected by a spam script. Fortunately, the script was unable to do any real damage and was detected within half an hour of infection. I thought it would be fun to show you the script and dissect it, to find out exactly how these things work and make thousands of email administrators’ lives a living hell.https://jelleraaijmakers.nl/2016/04/dissecting-spammers-spam-script
Anti-spam packages
Here's a great Laravel package if you want to use the no CAPTCHA reCATCHA that was introduced by Google last week:
https://github.com/anhskohbo/no-captcha
Personally I'd go for a honeypot before resorting to a recaptcha because a honeypot is invisible for users. Here's a good package by Maksim Surguy if you want to go that route:
