Answers.Body: <p>Try installing the <a href="https://civicrm.org/extensions/form-protection" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Form Protection</a> extension, which gives you additional measures to prevent abuse/bots, including Honeypot, Flood control, &amp; ReCAPTCHA v3.</p>
  
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Body: <p>We have a Profile that collects email addresses from new users and (after the user receives our confirmation email and confirms their email address to us) the Profile adds the user to a Group which we use for our newsletter distribution.  reCAPTCHA v2 is enabled on the Profile but CiviCRM is creating a lot (hundreds) of bogus new Contacts every day. (The new Contacts are not added to the Group because they don't respond to our confirmation email.) How to we stop/curtail bots from bypassing the reCAPTCHA test?
  CiviCRM 5.66.0, WordPress 6.4.3</p>
  
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Title: How to I curtail bots from bypassing the reCAPTCHA test we use on the sign-up page for our newsletter?
ThreadText: # How to I curtail bots from bypassing the reCAPTCHA test we use on the sign-up page for our newsletter?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-03-22)
  
  We have a Profile that collects email addresses from new users and (after the user receives our confirmation email and confirms their email address to us) the Profile adds the user to a Group which we use for our newsletter distribution. reCAPTCHA v2 is enabled on the Profile but CiviCRM is creating a lot (hundreds) of bogus new Contacts every day. (The new Contacts are not added to the Group because they don't respond to our confirmation email.) How to we stop/curtail bots from bypassing the reCAPTCHA test?
  CiviCRM 5.66.0, WordPress 6.4.3
  
  **Tags:** profile
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2024-03-23. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  Try installing the [Form Protection](https://civicrm.org/extensions/form-protection) extension, which gives you additional measures to prevent abuse/bots, including Honeypot, Flood control, & ReCAPTCHA v3.
  
  
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