I have integrated a form into my website vektordesigner.de. According to the Sitely developers, this form already has spam protection built in. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work.
I often receive emails with the following content:
Any suggestions on how we can get around this? A server-side captcha solution for the Sitely form would be desirable so that it remains GDPR-compliant.
More likely, spammers evolve all the time. Happy to help if you want to get in touch, we can try to troubleshoot it, and perhaps detect that specific bot.
I always use the latest version of sitely to publish and update my sites.
I don’t think that this was a joker sending this form, because I get those form transmissions more often.
I’ve also had some of these “messages” through the Sitely contact form on my website. One every few days. I have just been deleting them. Mine have just been a string of letters as those above. I assumed some kid in their mum’s basement with nothing better to do. More sinister?
If anybody else is seeing increased spam, we have a tentative solution for it and would love to test it with your contact form, because we aren’t getting spam on our own contact form. Please get in touch at feedback@sitely.app and we’ll set you up.
We’ve been getting similar messages through forms too (began about when you submitted this in October 2025). ALL coming from …@gmail.com too.
I wonder now if it is due to having not updated the site for over a year, thus it doesn’t have Sitely’s updated bot protection? (is this the issue @duncan?
Adding a ‘honeypot’ field was suggested by Google (viewable by only bots by blending into background). Some java coding is required to cancel submit if field contains data. Hoping that updating to the latest Sitely will fix it…
