Reporting a problem with my form to Google.

Let's explore the best ways to prevent bots from submitting form spam with fake user data and invalid email addresses.

Forcing users to log-in and limiting them to 1 response per, by using the 'Limit responses to 1 per person' setting, but that goes against the goal of the form, which should store as many responses from one user as he sees fit (probably 2 or 3 per user, per week). 9 Best Methods to Stop Bots From Submitting Forms to Prevent Spam, Fake Users Bots can cause all sorts of headaches targeting registration forms and contact forms.

Place a captcha-like question with data validation (Usually a 'what's 10+2' or similar, but as I have to change it manually, it's a chore to do it every day) and the spammer can easily set his program to input the new answer and spam thousands of responses in a single hour.

Placing a second section on the form, even if it just contains a 'submit response' button and nothing else.

Program can just parse question titles, and see where to submit what) chatbot google-apps-script hangoutsbot google-forms Updated Mar 11, 2022. a Google Form Hangouts Chat Bot powered by Google Apps Script.

Shuffling question order (there's 4 of them, the spammer/attacker A simple CLI script to spam Google Forms used by Crypto Wallet scammers to collect stolen data.

Recently, I have become the victim of spamming on the form, to the point that I have to constantly hop on different forms as the flooded ones get unusable.Īs Google Forms does not implement reCaptcha elements, does any of you know of any effective ways to avoid spamming on your forms from a bot/program? My form gathers 300 responses daily (normal traffic, spamming takes this to ~10,000 a day, making the form unusable), and I would like to avoid forcing users to log-in using google and limiting their responses to 1 per user. I have a Google Form that works in conjuction with a facebook Page of mine, that has become quite popular.

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