thanks for the replies everyone. These are customized web forms built using ColdFusion. They only submit to one (hidden) email address. The form-spammer might receive an email confirmation of their submission though, and I bet they start sending spam to that address. We'll keep an eye on this and see if it becomes more of a problem.
Thanks again, marc > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Schaible > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:56 AM > To: Marc Funaro > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT? Web Form Spam > > > Hi Marc, > > This can be made automatically, if your're using an standard > form script, eg. formmail.pl > and others. > > We have a simliar problem with our php bb forum. Some russian > idiots are trying to get an > account to publish their ad's. Now we're blocked ip ranges from russia > > > ============================================ > Am Montag, 14. Februar 2005 um 16:38 schrieben Sie: > > > Over the past 24 hours, three messages to two different web > forms we have > > online with some client websites have been used to send SPAM to us, > > basically pointing us to websites. Both are foreign sites - one was > > russian, the other spanish. Because web forms usually require > a human to > > fill out and submit, it seems odd to me that we'd see this > twice in such a > > short period of time. Is there a new automated bot out there > or something, > > that's capable of spamming via these web forms? Or is this > simply an "old" > > problem that I have never had to address until now? Is there more > > investigating I should be doing? > > > Thanks everyone, > > > Marc > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ ============================================ -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 1 391 30 00 Fax: +41 1 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer .:. SmarterTools -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
