The Hidden Form Field:

The idea behind the hidden form field is actually simple: An additional form field that is invisible for your normal customers, so they will never input any value for this field. But bots will see this field and in many cases input some value to submit the form with "complete" data. So if a form submission is received where the hidden field is not empty, it is a clear indication it was not submitted by a real customer and can be safely classified as spam.

Why bother your customers or breach their privacy with annoying captchas to prove they are humans?
Isn`t it smarter to place a honeypot as a trap for bots and let bots prove they are bots? :-)
While this honeypot is working well in many cases, unfortunately, bots are getting smarter and manage to get around this trap. Other solutions trying to detect spam only based on this or similar techniques are not enough anymore. That's why we take spam detection to another level with our extension and added further detection techniques to make sure we can also catch the smarter bots:

Form Submit Time Check:

Any normal "human" customer will always need a certain time to fill out a form before submitting, for typing his name, email, compose the contact message, or write the review...
Bots on the other side do not have this limitation, automating the whole spam submission via scripts, submitting a form is only a matter of milliseconds.

So here we have another clear criterion for distinguishing between good and bad, spam and legit customers. Simply configure the time threshold and any form submitted too fast (within a time below the configured threshold) will be treated as spam.
But unfortunately more sophiscticated spambots are prepared for this as well and delay their form submissions to avoid being detected as spam.

With hidden form fields and submit time check we have two simple but quite effective spam detection techniques combined in one extension that will identify many spambots already.
But that is not enough, you want complete protection, even catching the most advanced spam bots, right? :-)
Thats what we thought, so we take it to a whole new level, with even more highly flexible, powerful and targeted spam detection based on a spam scoring:

Spam Scoring Rules:

With Spam Scoring Rules, we equip you with the most advanced and powerful spam detection and flexibility found with no other solution. While other solutions rely on one single method for detecting spam with JaJuMa Honey Spam Anti Spam you get the "Swiss Army Knife" for fighting spam with literally unlimited options to identify spam and get even the most persistent and most advanced spambots under control.

Our extension allows you to set up unlimited spam scoring rules. With each rule, you can match submitted form data against any pattern. With each matching rule, the spam score will be increased by the configured value.
Your store is flooded with spam from a certain IP Address or IP Range? No problem, set up a spam score rule with a value higher than your max spam score and any form submit from these IP Addresses will be blocked right away.
Don't want to get contact messages from someone using no or a suspicious User-Agent, using a character-set you don't even understand like Cyrillic or Chinese? No problem just set up a spam scoring rule that matches against User-Agent or checks for certain characters. Seeing spam that does not match one specific pattern? No problem, set up several rules that only reach the max spam score level when each of them match together at the same time.

With JaJuMa Honey Spam Anti-Spam and its unique combination of different means of spam detection you are prepared for any spam coming to your store, the possibility and options are endless.
But spam in your store will have an end with this extension.

As easy as it can get::

• Install Extension,
• Enable Extension
• Enable and Configure Spam Detection & Actions for each Form to be protected and

...thats it!