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 strive to offer the best possible protection against spam bots, there are some limitations in preventing them from, for example, entering auto-generated email addresses into your forms, leading to an increased risk of delivering emails to invalid or even malicious recipients.
While we can successfully detect spam bots that are already flagged or those that fail one or more of our verification tests, we recognize the importance of implementing additional security measures to prevent them from entering your forms in the first place. To strengthen your form's security and minimize the risk of spam bots, we recommend considering 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 JS Widget: Finally, if you want email verification at the very moment an email address is typed into your forms, you can implement our Js Widget tool. Find more information about it here.
