Thought you folks would like to actually *see* what comes through a form
filled out by one of these bots. Note that there are only 6 form fields
here: Name, Email, Phone, Fax, Address and Message. Check what got put
into the Address field, which is the bulk of the message.
On 9/16/05, Les Mizzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thought you folks would like to actually *see* what comes through a form
filled out by one of these bots. Note that there are only 6 form fields
here: Name, Email, Phone, Fax, Address and Message. Check what got put
into the Address field, which
YES! I've been getting exactly the same thing from the same email
address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I reported this to AOL and even gave them my
work phone number if they want to call and discuss it but haven't heard
a peep.
I've added a check into my form processing, if ANY field has
content-type
I've added a check into my form processing, if ANY field has
content-type or multi-part I don't process the form,
I seen a bunch of ideas - including some CFC's that did all sorts of
processing and such, but keep it simple and stupid seems to work great
as well.
Since the bot likes to put
I have just tried changing the address of the form to see if throws the
spammer off
Mike Kear wrote:
I had one of these too. As far as I could tell, it was an automated process
to harvest the email addresses where forms send back a confirmation or
thanks by email.
In my case, the spammer was
Hi,
One of my clients is getting bombarded by some jerk, connection to a
form on his webpage and filling out the fields with junk and submitting
the forms. What can I do to prevent a computer from filling out my
forms. I don't really want to use that crazy jumbled image where to you
type in
it's probably related to the increase of mail form spamming.have alook
in the recent archives (past few weeks)...somebody had the same
problem...pretty sure I saw some sample code for some solutions ;-)
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
VP Director of E-Commerce Development
Electric Edge Systems
How are submitting the form? on your form process page you could make sure
that the referrer is the actually Form URL.
Also I've implemented a key which gets submitted along with the form, the
key is unique to each visitor and without it the form doesn't get processed,
and if the key contains
How are submitting the form? on your form process page you could make
sure that the referrer is the actually Form URL.
I'd recommend not doing this as some software (Norton Internet Security
I think) clears the referrer field, so legitimate users would be
blocked. If it's always from one email
I had one of these too. As far as I could tell, it was an automated process
to harvest the email addresses where forms send back a confirmation or
thanks by email.
In my case, the spammer was filling out the same information in every
field, so all I did was change the action page so that if
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