![]() ![]() If you would like to prevent spam emails from Google Forms from landing in your inbox, Gmail filters can help. Here’s a screenshot of one such email from Google Forms that easily tricked the spam filters. Google Forms will automatically email a copy of the form response, including all the pictures and links contained in the original form, to the email address that was entered in the form. Now the spammers can simply open the Google Form, fill in the recipient’s email address and hit the submit button. Inside the Form settings, they turn on the option to “Collect Email Addresses” including the option to send “Response receipts” when a new form is submitted.Humans will leave it blank because they can’t see it. ![]() Bots will fill it out since they fill out every field in a form. You add an invisible field in the form code. The form creator uploads images for the various question fields and also adds links to spam websites in the form. There is a better way to prevent spam and it’s called the ‘Honeypot Trap’.A public form is created with Google Forms.Here’s how spam emails are sent through Google Forms. The emails are sent through Google Forms and because the messages originate from Google’s own email servers, they do not get caught in the spam filters. Gmail is very effective at filtering spam emails but spammers seem to have figured out a new way to bypass the spam filters and send emails that land right in the user’s inbox. How spammers use a simple setting in Google Forms to send junk emails through Google's own mailing servers and completely avoid the Gmail spam filters. ![]()
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