A spam filter that shows its work.
spamex exists for a problem every form service and every developer with a contact form knows: forms that collect more SEO pitches, fake invoices and link dumps than customer messages, until the owners quietly stop reading them. That is the worst outcome a form can have.
Why the usual fixes were not good enough
A CAPTCHA stops bots and also stops a fair number of humans, which for a small business means a lost sale nobody notices. Email spam filters were trained on twenty years of inbox junk and treat a polite backlink pitch as a normal message. Off the shelf "form protection" plugins are a honeypot and a word list, which works until the first bot that learned to read CSS. None of them tell you why a message was blocked, so you cannot tell when they are wrong.
We wanted something that would make the call the way a careful assistant would: check the obvious signs first, read the message if needed, ask for a second opinion only when genuinely unsure, and always say why. That is what spamex does, in about a millisecond for most messages.
What we promise
The numbers on this site are measurements, not marketing. We re-run them on every change, publish how they are calculated, and say plainly which parts are still measured on generated data rather than real traffic. If a number cannot be measured yet, it is not on the site.
Every verdict comes with a reason, and every reason can be overruled. If spamex holds back a real customer, one click fixes it for your site and teaches it the lesson.
We keep as little as we can. Messages are stored as fingerprints, not text, unless you ask otherwise, and sender details are hashed. We do not sell submissions, we do not share them, and nobody trains a model on them but us, for you.
Enterprises that need the filter inside their own infrastructure can run spamex self-hosted, with the same updates and support. How that works.
Who is behind it
spamex is built and run by a small team in Dubai, led by Azeem Hassni. It is a small product on purpose: the people who built it answer the email, read the review queue, and would genuinely like to hear about the strangest spam your forms have ever received. The contact page is protected by spamex, so you will find out what it thinks of you on the way in.