Admissions application bot activity

["Czarapata, Paul (KCTCS)" <paul.czarapata () KCTCS EDU>]

Dear colleagues,

Sorry for the cross-post, but we have a bit of a situation here at KCTCS.  We have been getting tens of thousands of 
fake admissions applications over the past 6 weeks.  We have re-captcha implemented and they are still getting through, 
but at such a pace there is no way a human can be doing it.  The network team is watching the IP addresses and 
blocking, but then they just pop up from somewhere else.  Our student team is working on a pin code process, but that's 
not ready yet.  We don't have an admissions application fee either, or that would likely stop them.  I was just curious 
if anyone else had seen this happening and if you have stopped it, what you did?

Thank you in advance - PC


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