Web form spam

Hi I am a novice CF dude. I have a web registration form that gets bogus registrations and I am trying get my users to type in a word to help limit spam. I am not sure how to do this and google and the forums do not show any cf examples.
I have tried various versions of the following
<cfset enter="alignment">
        <p><em>Please enter the word <cfoutput>#enter#</cfoutput> in to the field below to help us limit spam.</em></p>
        <br />
         <div class="register">
<label for="enter">Enter alignment:</label>
            <cfinput type="text" name="enter">
            <cfinput type="hidden" name="enter_required">
        </div>
If a user does not fill in the field, it will not submit. However, it will accept any text and I want it to except only alignment. any help most appreciated.
Jim

I have placed it inside of a .zip file now:
http://www.betterppt.com/form.zip
I have found instructions for a procedure that is precisely what I am driving at:
http://www.blogx10.co.uk/preventing-spam-form-submissions-with-css-and-cgi-5
But the syntax appears to be slightly different than what is used in my form.cgi script. Or I'm doing something wrong. Probably the latter...

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HI, I have tried adding a hidden field to my web form to help reduce spam. I am not sure what I tried will work and do I need to and how do I add some code to specify do not process form if this field is filled in?
Here is what I tried so far and any help would be awesome - Thanks Jim

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I cannot see how anything you've said or done so far will help reduce web-form spam. Assuming you wish to prevent someone from maliciously submitting a form 10000 times to your site, then you have to use a CAPTCHA.
There is no easy, 1-2-3 way to add CAPTCHA to your application. However, some ways are easier than others. I would recommend Raymond Camden's Quick and dirty CAPTCHA Guide - for ColdFusion 8. It uses Coldfusion 8's in-built CAPTCHA functionality, and is relatively easy to adopt.

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I have an employment application form that is getting spammed. The form has a captcha so I'm assuming it is a human filling out the form. I'm looking for any ideas or tips for reducing the amount of spam.
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Please see this reply http://forums.adobe.com/message/4364404#4364404

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Hi,
I'm noticing a trend of increased SPAM web form submissions across most of our BC sites. This has got particularly bad in the past week or so. All SPAM submissions follow a very similar theme. The text is complete 'gobbledygook' basically! The forms being used don't have any description fields where long descriptions or links can be entered so I struggle to see why this is happening.
What I want to know is:
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Time: 11am
House Name: LHkJxazHGUYClEZJQd
Street address: nvOaQumEsbBGsA
Postcode: lJEODtxlXj

Hi there,
We are experiencing a high volume of spam since changing our web forms on our newly redesigned site. The objective of the site design was to make it quick and easy for clients to get a quick quote thus asking for only a few fields to be completed. Adding a captcha form would actually detract from the purpose of the form.
We have implemented the honey pot field which seems to have made little to no difference in volume (this seems to be the case for this fix across many other users of BC). The problem is with our spam is quite unusual whereby we are not getting any specific info from them really making it hard to detect if it is spam or real. See example;
Have you seen this type before?
Your Name
David
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casterick
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I'm having a promblem on our simple quick contact form
We are getting this when submitting... but before it was ok
ERROR: An error occurred while processing credit card
here's the link to our site
http://www.jdteterlaw.com/
test the rRequest Consult form
Thanks

Hi Dave Blubaugh,
To expand further on what I mentioned in my previous post; when a web form is created within the admin console, the 'Anti-bot Fraud Protection' module is now included by default. This module is not used to verify Credit Cards - what this module does is create a hidden input field (i.e. a honeypot) for that form. Therefore, if this hidden field is populated, an error will be returned. This is due to the fact that spam bots usually populate all fields as sometimes they cannot differentiate between whether a field is hidden or not - it is used as a preventive measure to reduce spam.
Now the confusion here is that the error returned is “ERROR: An error occurred while processing credit card”. This is because the feature was originally introduced for the online shop. As mentioned in my previous post, there is a bug logged where we have requested to update this error message to something more generic as this module is now used across all web forms. I suspect this update will be rolled out with our next release, however at the moment this is not something I can guarantee.
There have also been reports of this error being triggered randomly, yet this is not something we can replicate. Please note that if you use a tool to auto-populate the web form’s fields, this will populate the hidden ‘honeypot’ field causing the error to be thrown. If you do believe that the error message is being thrown incorrectly, I will need you to submit a case directly to support so we can investigate this.
I hope this clarifies things and additional information on this feature can be found in the following document: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2882.
To answer your questions directly, yes, the 'Anti-bot Fraud Protection' module does render the {module_ccsecurity} module tag. When the form is viewed live, that module tag then renders the ‘honeypot’ field.
The module tag {module_error} itself cannot be modified. But you can modify the layout this tag resides in as well as the template assigned to this layout. Therefore, effectively you can assign a different template to this layout that does not include the breadcrumbs module. You can modify this layout via Site Manager > System Pages > General.

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</option>
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& Mtrl </option>
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Thank you!
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This wont work, Needs to be a lot more then this and CSS to hide things rather then script hiding them.
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Does it take 10 minutes to open on the server, if it takes 10 minutes on the server and only 20 seconds of that is CPU processing then are you saying for over 9 minutes it is rendering the form in your browser, you can check the browser process on the machine.
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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