Available on: Professional and Business plans
Advanced spam filtering offers more flexibility and control over Formshield, the spam filtering technology offered by Formspree. You have the ability to adjust the aggressiveness of the filter and toggle individual classifiers that are used to filter out common spam patterns.
Formshield Smart Filter
The Formshield smart filter is a machine learning model trained on millions of form submissions. You can set how aggressively it behaves when filtering out spam. There are three settings:
- Neutral: uses a reasonable threshold for detecting spam
- Aggressive: uses a low threshold for detecting spam
- Relaxed: uses a high threshold for detecting spam
Formshield Classifiers
Formshield also identifies messages that fit predefined patterns commonly associated with spam. The categories of spam it filters out include:
- Profanity: messages that contain offensive words (disabled by default)
- Crypto related: messages that contain keywords related to cryptocurrencies
- Fraud related: messages containing words commonly associated with fraud
- Drugs related: messages containing solicitations to purchase medication or drugs
- Porn related: messages containing references to pornography
- Spammy phrases: an assortment of phrases commonly associated with spam
- Spammy URLs: an assortment of URLs commonly associated with spam
- Spammy Emails: invalid or non-existent emails (disabled by default)