I’m sure that many of you recognize the lead name and have received this exact message.ĭetermining whether a lead is real or not can sometimes be tough, but there are a few subtle things on this one that stand out.įirst, the source is the Johnstone and Johnstone website, and this was sent to a Real Estate One agent. This addition should be completed by the end of the month.īelow is an example of a lead email that was generated by a bot. It does this while letting your valid users pass right through with ease. The invisible CAPTCHA will first intelligently determine the risk of the user attempting to fill in the form, and only presents adaptive CAPTCHAs to those it suspects are automated bots. It is a newer, more evolved form of the Captcha that you may be familiar with, the one that asks you to select all the matching photos or to check a box indicating you’re not a robot. We needed something that would not get in the way of the people that legitimately wanted to contact us, so we’re adding something called an invisible CAPTCHA feature. This should stop a vast majority of the automated bot entries from getting through. Just prior to that, a similar one was sent to over 250 agents.īecause of the recent increase in spambot activity, we are adding a new layer of protection to the agent capture forms on all the main company websites. The latest one was sent to at least 950 of our agents over the last couple of weeks (see the example below). They can be annoying and can make you waste your time responding to them or sending them information or worse, by getting caught in one of their scams. These fake submissions may appear to be from a legitimate new customer just so they can try to catch you with a phishing link in an email or through another communication app like WhatsApp in the future.Īlthough we don’t receive a lot of them, we have noticed an increase in the frequency of bot submissions recently. Spambots run through our websites and automatically complete and submit forms with the same fake information to multiple agents. This information can then be collected to build lists for sending unsolicited email, i.e, spam. What’s a spambot? A spambot is a malicious piece of code or program designed to gather names and email addresses and other information from online sources like websites and forms. Unfortunately, this also opens the possibility of receiving fake or spam submissions from individuals or from spambots.

These forms are important and allow anyone to contact you directly from the main company sites……. The agent search allows customers to search for you by name and to send you a message by choosing your Email Me link, filling in and submitting your contact form. We’ve noticed a recent increase in fake contact form submissions coming through our main company websites.

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