Does mailfloss detect and handle spam bots?

we provide an email verification service to help you keep your lists accurate and free from invalid or risky email addresses while we protect against spam bots, we can't prevent bots from using real and valid email addresses, which increases the risk of sending emails to unintended recipients in this situation, implementing additional security measures to prevent them from entering your forms is recommended to strengthen your form's security and minimize the risk of spam bots, consider the following options honeypot system a honeypot system involves adding a hidden form field that only spam bots would fill out when this field is detected as filled, the form submission can be automatically rejected as spam learn more about this system here captcha implementing a captcha system adds an extra layer of protection to your forms by requiring users to complete a challenge that only a human can solve this can effectively block most spam bots from submitting the form you can find a free alternative here risk api detect bad actors & prevent spam signups, taking an email and ip and calculating an associated risk score this score will help to determine whether a signup is legitimate or not we suggest an option here our javascript widget finally, if you want email verification at the very moment an email address is typed into your forms, you can implement the mailfloss javascript widget find more information about it here