While I succesfully use easiCaptcha to prevent most ‘spammed’ form responses, this cannot prevent those sad folk who manually fill in nonsense, usually with links to spurious web sites. One client web site, with global reach, has become attacked more frequently in the last week or so, with form responses like the one below:
Can any of the coders amongst you (as I’m not one) suggest a mark up snippet, presumably PHP, that might weed out gobbledegook entries - bearing in mind that this client gets genuine response from very strange sounding sources and oddly spelt names around the world?
Obviously, in this case, making the ‘Phone’ field accept only numbers is an option, but I’m sure the spammer would soon spot that.
Perhaps we just have to live with it, as past experience shows that these bouts go in cycles, but in this last instance it is approaching a nuisance level.
Any suggestions welcome. (In plain English, please!).
It is difficult to control text such as ‘vfKUfoISBgPvnwaIdrc’ as it
does not contain a pattern that can be detected, it was most likely
filled in by a human as you suggest but there is probably a way of at
least controling the problem you are having.
If you are using easiCaptcha then you will be using the easiForm
action, the easiForm action has a bad words option to block certain
words/text from a your form, if you contact me at my email address
with a copy of the spam email you received then I can tell you what to
add to the bad words field of the easiForm action to block people
sending website addresses in the form fields.
HTH
On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:28 AM, ColinJA wrote:
While I succesfully use easiCaptcha to prevent most ‘spammed’ form
responses, this cannot prevent those sad folk who manually fill in
nonsense, usually with links to spurious web sites. One client web
site, with global reach, has become attacked more frequently in the
last week or so, with form responses like the one below:
Can any of the coders amongst you (as I’m not one) suggest a mark up
snippet, presumably PHP, that might weed out gobbledegook entries -
bearing in mind that this client gets genuine response from very
strange sounding sources and oddly spelt names around the world?
Obviously, in this case, making the ‘Phone’ field accept only
numbers is an option, but I’m sure the spammer would soon spot that.
Perhaps we just have to live with it, as past experience shows that
these bouts go in cycles, but in this last instance it is
approaching a nuisance level.
Any suggestions welcome. (In plain English, please!).
Copy of spam response email sent to your personal e-mail.
Colin
On 12 Jan 2011, at 10:09, Mike B wrote:
Hi Colin,
It is difficult to control text such as ‘vfKUfoISBgPvnwaIdrc’ as it does not contain a pattern that can be detected, it was most likely filled in by a human as you suggest but there is probably a way of at least controling the problem you are having.
If you are using easiCaptcha then you will be using the easiForm action, the easiForm action has a bad words option to block certain words/text from a your form, if you contact me at my email address with a copy of the spam email you received then I can tell you what to add to the bad words field of the easiForm action to block people sending website addresses in the form fields.
HTH
On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:28 AM, ColinJA wrote:
While I succesfully use easiCaptcha to prevent most ‘spammed’ form responses, this cannot prevent those sad folk who manually fill in nonsense, usually with links to spurious web sites. One client web site, with global reach, has become attacked more frequently in the last week or so, with form responses like the one below:
Can any of the coders amongst you (as I’m not one) suggest a mark up snippet, presumably PHP, that might weed out gobbledegook entries - bearing in mind that this client gets genuine response from very strange sounding sources and oddly spelt names around the world?
Obviously, in this case, making the ‘Phone’ field accept only numbers is an option, but I’m sure the spammer would soon spot that.
Perhaps we just have to live with it, as past experience shows that these bouts go in cycles, but in this last instance it is approaching a nuisance level.
Any suggestions welcome. (In plain English, please!).