EMail Spam Disaster

Monday, September 5th, 2005 at 1600

Don’t bother writing to me to tell me my contact form is broken. I have taken it offline after receiving a huge amount fo virusicated, multipart emails through it.

Damn spammers. **I don’t want your herbal viagra. Stopit.**

I’m investigating the problem, but really if spammers are now hitting contact forms as well as comments without resorting to captchas or silly general knowledge questions I’m a little short on ideas.

If you have any suggestions as to how to prevent comment-form abuse, especially using this comment form plugin: http://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/ then I’d love to hear from you.

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4 Comment for “EMail Spam Disaster”

zimmer Said this on September 6th, 2005 at 2050
Have you seen this method of recognition using a graphic representation of a text string?

It means the password is a picture, so a bot cannot read it, and not send a post…..
look at posting a comment here
http://www.occupiedcountry.blogspot.com/
Denyerec Said this on September 7th, 2005 at 1527
CAPTCHAs or something they’re called, yarrr. Most people seem to complain about them getting in the way which I can agree with. Mind you, for something like the email contact form it’s not seeing heavy use so maybe it’d work out.
Syrus Said this on September 7th, 2005 at 1848
BUY MY V15y4JEGF$Ã‚Â£_T

What I really hate is spam mail that doesn’t even try to advertise something. Verry bizzare, it’s like spam for no reason….at all.

No idea why I left this comment
Marco Raaphorst Said this on September 7th, 2005 at 1857
Recieved an email by Ryan saying: ‘Firas is working on a security release for this weekend’

Might be good.