Magento 2 Honeypot - Stop Spam Extension

Problems

Today, many Magento 2 merchants have issues with spammers attacks via many of their forms. Such attacks can increase the database size with fake accounts registration, fake entries, fake data entries, fake submissions. Spambots can hit Magento 2 site from any form used there, eg contact form, product review form, customer registration form, newsletter subscription form, custom forms, third-party forms.

Magento 2 comes with ReCaptcha by default to protect some forms against spambots attacks. However, many spambots are bypassing the Google Recaptcha feature today, fill out and submit the forms.

As, a result, such spammer attacks, fake entries, fake data can increase the size of your database quickly, and impact negatively on your server resources, site performance, SEO, and more.

Solutions

Magento 2 Honeypot - Stop Spam Extension can overcome this issue, by protecting any of Magento 2 forms from spambots submission. The extension can protect your forms via the honeypot feature.

The extension adds a hidden honeypot input at any of your Magento 2 forms. The hidden honeypot field is not visible to real visitors/customers/users and can not disburse them to submit the form. However, spammers can see the hidden field as just another field in the form, fill that hidden honeypot field with data, and submit the form.

On any form submission, the Magento 2 Honeypot extension checks whether the honeypot field (hidden input) is filled or empty. If not filled, the form will submit, and if filled the form submission will be marked as spam and fails to submit.

As a result, all forms at your Magento 2 site will be protected from spammers. You will receive only data from real visitors/customers/users, and your Magento 2 site won't be impacted negatively due to spambots entries.