andy206uk — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:42:54 +0000

Hi,

I can't really advise you on how to use it within the script that you are using, since I've never seen your script

The kind of stuff spammers put into forms is quite hard to type in manually, however you can tell if it's picking it up by just typing 'BCC:' in any of your fields.

shobuz99 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:12:05 +0000

Steve1943;222677 wrote: Slightly off topic but it has long puzzled me.
Why do they send these gibberish mails - what's in it for them?

Steve

I guess they get some sorta sick kick out of sending this crap.. I don't know.
I've never been good at figuring out people with mental problems.

It kind of mirrors the SPAM that gets sent out every day that gives you a link that never works... no I haven't tried them, but I have checked their domain
and nearly every time, it's phony... so you can't contact them, why would they send you the SPAM in the first place.. same as your question.
Beats me.
Rick (Shobuz99)

shobuz99 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:07:26 +0000

Andy,

I inserted your code in the formmail.php that I use from Dagon.

I tried testing it, but what I sent got through to my email.
Is there a way I can test this to make sure it's working and that
I haven't inserted your code in the wrong place?

Thanks very much for your help on this. I do appreciate it!
Rick (Shobuz99)

Steve1943 — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:12:45 +0000

shobuz99;221114 wrote:
blah, blah ............
BTW.. The web links and the email links are all gibberish. Just random letters, like monkeys typing.
Here's an example of what I receive in my email:[/]

[=Red]Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:39:32 -0600
To: xxxxxx@yahoo.com
Subject: General Visitor Comments
From: "qvyzbmir" Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
CC:shobuz99@yahoo.com

Message =
fyahmonm http://czewgxlg .com oupzbeaz cmassaim

Host: www. xyz.org
IP: 64.49.255.108

Rick (shobuz99)

Slightly off topic but it has long puzzled me.
Why do they send these gibberish mails - what's in it for them?

Steve

shobuz99 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:54:37 +0000

andy,
I would like to insert your code into the php formmail that I am using... where within the form code should I insert this?
I'm not good at all when it comes to code structure and ettiquette..
Rick (Shobuz99)

andy206uk — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:37:44 +0000

It'll have to be implimented on the PHP script that processes the form, not the html form itself.

TheVoice — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:43:11 +0000

andy206uk;221298 wrote: I use the following code in my PHP formmail script to ascertain if there is anything a bit spammy in any of the posted data:

<?php foreach($_POST as $postvar => $postdata) { //***** check for spammy stuff if(substr_count($postdata,\"\r\") > 0) { $error[input] = \"Illegal Character in form input\"; } if(substr_count($postdata,\"\n\") > 0) { $error[input] = \"Illegal Character in form input\"; } if(substr_count($postdata,\"%0a\") > 0) { $error[input] = \"Illegal Character in form input\"; } if(substr_count($postdata,\"%0d\") > 0) { $error[input] = \"Illegal Character in form input\"; } if(substr_count($postdata,\"Content-Type:\") > 0) { $error[input] = \"Illegal Character in form input\"; } if(substr_count($postdata,\"bcc:\") > 0) { $error[input] = \"Illegal Character in form input\"; } if(substr_count($postdata,\"to:\") > 0) { $error[input] = \"Illegal Character in form input\"; } if(substr_count($postdata,\"cc:\") > 0) { $error[input] = \"Illegal Character in form input\"; } } ?>

All of the above are common things that a spammer will try to inject into a message to send spam. Once you've detected spam you can either make the spammer believe that it works and give the normal output, or return them to another page with a 'no spam' error.

The spammers like easy exploitable code - add this little bit of code and they'll likely give up and leave you alone....

Will this work on a html FormMail form?

!ASK! — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:46:28 +0000

I found a new web site blogg that has posted some very interesting information about the ask-dir.com directory it apears to be a spam directory and also. ask-dir.com steals peoples money and does not keep them in the directory and he wont give refunds .

check out this blog from http://www.ask-dir-com.info to see more about what a crook is.
Ask dir is a broad topic on the web with some 20,000 plus links. Unfortunately most ask dir links are not great places to visit. For parents who want to protect their young children from parents material. Here is one website example, ask-dir.com we recommend you ban or black list ask-dir.com so your children will be protected from great and nice. Here are just 2 examples of why this site is on the naughty list. ask-dir.com/Society/Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual/: ask-dir.com/Society/Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual/ . Its time that parents take a closer look at some directories before the let the little one surf these types of website. So before you visit all these ask-dir links you can check here first to get the facts before you visit these ask dir links.

It seems to me the Ask-dir.com should be banned from search engines.

andy206uk — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:53:37 +0000

I agree - CAPTCHA's are only useful against computer generated spam. Quite a few spamming organisations pay slave wages to kids in a third world country to go around spamming contact forms, blog comments and forums because it's cheap and gets past all security.

Trust me on this one - the code above will stop 100% of all spam, automated or otherwise.

nameeta — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:56:04 +0000

This problem with Captcha is very common and we have also installed it on many of our sites but still we get alot of spam on daily basis.