[PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Gary
I have a client with a form on his site and he is getting spammed. It appears not to be from bots but human generated. While they are coming from India, they do not all have the same IP address, but they all have gmail addresses, New York addresses are used in the input field and they all

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:11 -0400, Gary wrote: I have a client with a form on his site and he is getting spammed. It appears not to be from bots but human generated. While they are coming from India, they do not all have the same IP address, but they all have gmail addresses, New York

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Gary
There is plenty of commonaltiy in the submissions, all ip addresses start with an 122. They all offer SEO services, but change the wording, so if I tried to bannish any submissions with Search Engine, Ranking, Google etc, they would probably just shift messages. There are also special

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:25:15AM -0400, Gary wrote: There is plenty of commonaltiy in the submissions, all ip addresses start with an 122. They all offer SEO services, but change the wording, so if I tried to bannish any submissions with Search Engine, Ranking, Google etc, they would

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Peter van der Does
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:11:47 -0400 Gary gwp...@ptd.net wrote: I have a client with a form on his site and he is getting spammed. It appears not to be from bots but human generated. While they are coming from India, they do not all have the same IP address, but they all have gmail addresses,

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Adam Randall
I was getting those as well on my website's form, so I added a honeypot field and a math question (I'm not overly fond of captchas for my own stuff, but anyway). The field itself is hidden, so bots will fill it out causing the e-mail sending routine to bail out (though they don't know that since

Re: [PHP] Form Spam

2009-08-20 Thread Gary
I have a honey pot on their already. Plus all the fields are correctly matched (first name to first name, comments to comments), which is what makes me think this is some .45 @ hour spammer just hunting and pecking from a hut in india. Adam Randall randa...@gmail.com wrote in message