[Pro] PHP Spam

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I have a PHP form page that’s attracting strange nonsense types of replies. Looks like spam but not sure. The replies just contain gibberish. Any thoughts? The page has the Anti-Spam action on it. Does this action work on a PHP page? The page is: http://www.uccl.org/newslettersignup.html

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Jacob

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If it looks like spam then it probably is!

The anti-spam action obfuscates email addresses on your page and this page isn’t PHP anyway. It is the processing page that is.

Have you tried checking the ‘Add a Spam Trap’ option in the Action palette?

This is usually enough to stop automatic spambot form filling but wont do anything for forms that are manually filled.

David

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It would help to be able to control some of what is sent to you, such
as a form processor with a ‘badwords’ blocker or similar is useful for
blocking manually filled forms, then you can stop spam that contains
selected words like http:// or optimisation etc. it won’t of course
stop gibberish only as it is near impossible to predict something like
‘shdyg nkdhf’ but emails like this are not that common as they serve
no purpose while ones with ‘pills’, ‘web optimisation’, ‘optimization’
and links do. The badwords blocker will help or generally stop those
type of emails and as you learn or receive people sending spam or
emails you don’t want then you just select a word from them that would
not be in general email and add it to the blocker.

The PHP easiForm has a badwords blocker (but is not free, small charge
per domain) and I am sure if you want to hand code a little you might
find contact form processing scripts on http://www.hotscripts.com/ but
as I say, there is not much that can detect gibberish on it’s own.

HTH

On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:04 AM, DeltaDave wrote:

This is usually enough to stop automatic spambot form filling but
wont do anything for forms that are manually filled.

David

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I am not seeing “add a spam trap” in the action palette.

Jacob

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Hi Jacob,
I suspect your version of the action predates the feature. Download
the latest version here;
http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=019
Regards,
Tim.

On 27 Jan 2010, at 13:46, jcichy wrote:

I am not seeing “add a spam trap” in the action palette.

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what does that mean??

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I am not seeing “add a spam trap” in the action palette.

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