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December 19, 2022
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Scam attempts from portfolio site

  • December 19, 2022
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Creating my Adobe portfolio site has opened the floodgates for scammers.  I  have received the same identical scam email through my contact submission form, over and over.  I'm just curious what Adobe is doing to combat this as this is turning out to be a very bad experience.

Correct answer Nancy OShea

Nothing anybody can do about Human Spammers, unfortunately.

 

However to reduce robot spam, I added a question in a required field that only a human can answer. See screenshot.

 

 

If the answer is wrong, I know it was not submitted by a human.

If robots can't answer at all, the form data won't submit.

Although not perfect, it's better than nothing.

 

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Nancy OShea
Nancy OSheaCorrect answer
Community Expert
December 25, 2022

Nothing anybody can do about Human Spammers, unfortunately.

 

However to reduce robot spam, I added a question in a required field that only a human can answer. See screenshot.

 

 

If the answer is wrong, I know it was not submitted by a human.

If robots can't answer at all, the form data won't submit.

Although not perfect, it's better than nothing.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
ved78Author
New Participant
December 27, 2022

Thank you Nancy, this solution should work out nicely to thin out the automated spam! 

John T Smith
Community Expert
December 19, 2022

What do you think Adobe CAN do?

 

You have a public contact form that YOU control... not Adobe... so there is no way that I know of for Adobe to do anything

ved78Author
New Participant
December 19, 2022

Since these contact submissions appear automated, maybe the ability to add captcha verification for starters. 

kglad
Community Expert
December 19, 2022

good.  make a suggestion to adobe.

 

for applicable apps, use https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/x-productkb/global/how-to-user-voice.html

 

 

for others, use https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

kglad
Community Expert
December 19, 2022

probably nothing, but you can check:

 

portfolio questions: https://help.myportfolio.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=177168

portfolio faq: https://help.myportfolio.com/hc/en-us