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feat: enhance contact form spam detection with better pattern matching (#909)
* Improve spam detection for contact forms Enhanced the isLikelySpam function to better catch randomized spam submissions: - Count both uppercase→lowercase and lowercase→uppercase transitions (not just one direction) - Detect suspicious uppercase ratios (30-95%) that indicate random character strings - Allow all-uppercase (JOHN SMITH, IBM) and all-lowercase (john smith) as legitimate - Flag strings with 4+ case transitions OR uppercase ratio in suspicious range This catches spam like "CuxFbsjOMshzd", "lxBMWgpkbCX", "cVBaaQcPphWeXH" while allowing legitimate names like "McDonald", "iPhone", or all-caps company names. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]> * Replace spam prefix with 🙄 emoji More concise and expressive than "[POTENTIAL SPAM]" text. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <[email protected]>
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src/app/api/slack/route.ts

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const body = await request.json();
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const { formId, firstname, lastname, email, company, message, isSpam } = body;
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const spamPrefix = isSpam ? '[POTENTIAL SPAM] ' : '';
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const spamPrefix = isSpam ? '🙄 ' : '';
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const responses = await Promise.all(
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slackWebhookList.map((webhookUrl) =>

src/components/shared/contact-form/contact-form.tsx

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const isLikelySpam = (text: string): boolean => {
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if (!text) return false;
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// Count uppercase letters that appear after lowercase letters (not at word boundaries)
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const mixedCaseTransitions = (text.match(/[a-z][A-Z]/g) || []).length;
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const letters = text.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]/g, '');
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if (letters.length === 0) return false;
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// Spam pattern: 3+ mixed case transitions in a single field
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// Examples: kLfvrCxSDewcS, xKyCpzFjUCOipFFB, TsPoonGZcPwAv
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// Legitimate: Christopher, Gambino, McDonald (0-1 transitions)
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return mixedCaseTransitions >= 3;
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// Allow all uppercase (like "IBM", "NASA", "JOHN SMITH")
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if (letters === letters.toUpperCase()) return false;
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// Allow all lowercase (like "john smith")
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if (letters === letters.toLowerCase()) return false;
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// Count ANY case transitions (uppercase to lowercase OR lowercase to uppercase)
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const lowToHigh = (text.match(/[a-z][A-Z]/g) || []).length;
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const highToLow = (text.match(/[A-Z][a-z]/g) || []).length;
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const totalTransitions = lowToHigh + highToLow;
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// Count uppercase letters
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const uppercaseCount = (letters.match(/[A-Z]/g) || []).length;
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const uppercaseRatio = uppercaseCount / letters.length;
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// Spam pattern 1: 4+ total case transitions
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// Examples: CuxFbsjOMshzd (6), lxBMWgpkbCX (4), wUwqIVjOmhQbJi (10)
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// Legitimate: Christopher (2), McDonald (2), iPhone (2), MacBook (2)
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if (totalTransitions >= 4) return true;
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// Spam pattern 2: Uppercase ratio in suspicious range (30-95%)
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// Too random to be legitimate mixed case (which is typically <30%)
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// Not all caps (which would be 100%)
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// Examples: lxBMWgpkbCX (42%), cVBaaQcPphWeXH (64%), CuxFbsjOMshzd (38%)
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// Legitimate: McDonald (25%), iPhone (33% but only 2 transitions), John (25%)
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if (uppercaseRatio > 0.3 && uppercaseRatio < 0.95) return true;
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return false;
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};
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// Retry a fetch request up to 3 times with exponential backoff
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setFormError('');
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const isSpam = detectSpamSubmission(values);
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const spamPrefix = isSpam ? '[POTENTIAL SPAM] ' : '';
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const spamPrefix = isSpam ? '🙄 ' : '';
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try {
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if (

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