The internet. Today, spambots are more aggressive and smarter than ever. They come in various forms; sometimes they obviously add fake addresses which bounce back quickly, and sometimes they add addresses of real people as a kind of harassment. If you leave your list "Open", it's likely that bots will abuse your forms and poison your list. Simple checkboxes and moving your list to a confirmed opt-in won't suffice anymore, but thankfully captcha has evolved as well. There are many services that offer different types of captchas, some more effective than others, but today it's imperative to use certain measures to protect your list - and your business reputation
from abuse. Bots. If you have an email subscription form on your site, you've probably thought about how to protect your email from spam and other company mailing list automated bad guys who sign up using fake information. You can validate your list/double opt-in or add a captcha, but these are not always to everyone's taste. What do spambots do? However, before we get into the details of defending your subscriber lists, here's a quick look at what spambots can do. By definition, a spambot is an automated
Program that collects email addresses by crawling the internet and uses them to send large amounts of unsolicited email to those addresses: spam. These emails are collected through websites, chat rooms, newsgroups and many other online platforms. Once these emails are collected, spammers or hackers usually send them for hacking, advertising or fraudulent commercial purpose. At one end of the scale, they can just be boring. You might get a few fake followers from time to time, which isn't a big deal. However, on the other, less fortunate side, it is possible that your forms get bombarded or spam trap email addresses get added to your lists.