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JunkGate, the contact-form spam gate

junkgate.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 78.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

JunkGate screens contact-form enquiries for scams while letting genuine customers through without showing them a CAPTCHA.

Why it surfaced

The homepage offers an unusually concrete demo: paste in a payment scam, SEO pitch, or genuine enquiry and see the result. Its stated rules are unusually clear—nothing is deleted, uncertain messages pass through, and protection stays off until the site owner enables it.

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