Spam scoring

Spam rarely identifies itself with one perfect signal. Form Plume looks at several clues and combines them into one score.

What contributes to the score

Signals can include excessive links, common spam terms, unusual capitalization or gibberish, disposable or invalid email addresses, repeated identical content, and keywords you have blocked. Feedback from submissions your team marks as spam or legitimate also helps Form Plume recognize similar content.

Honeypots, time traps, rate limits, and CAPTCHA run before scoring. When one of those checks rejects a request, Form Plume does not store it as a submission.

One weak scoring signal does not need to quarantine a real person. Several strong signals can move the submission to spam with much more confidence.

Quarantine instead of delete

When the score crosses your form's threshold, Form Plume moves the submission to the spam inbox. It is still there if the classification was wrong.

Marking an entry as legitimate restores it to the normal inbox. Marking missed abuse as spam helps your team keep the inbox clean.