SBS Anti-Spam System

Connect 24 has developed a ‘Captcha’ system. The visitor must answer a random set of security questions in order to submit the enquiry form. We can add this to the bottom of your website’s enquiry form(s) to ensure security and prevent your email address(es) being ‘harvested’ by spammers.

Captcha stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart - you may have seen systems where the website displays a fuzzy or distorted image of some characters and you enter a series of numbers and letters into a box. The problem with these systems is that sometimes the characters and letters can be confused - a zero can be read as an 'O' and lower-case 'L' can be read as a 'one'. Also, spammers are writing sophisticated software that is able to recognise the characters within the images by looking for edges of characters and determining what the character or number is.

The Connect 24 system is different - we use images of common items such as apples, footballs, pencils, computers, and so on - the spammers cannot determine a difference between a football and an apple, because essentially they are both round objects and so their hacking software fails to submit the correct answers - this makes our system inherently more secure.

For an example of our Captcha system in operation, please click here to submit an enquiry via our contact form on this website.