I have spammers filling a form in my site always using the same name: “123456”
I am using PHP Feedback Form with Spam trap set. I believe they are hand filling the form, but why will they use the same name?
Is there any way to say if field Name=123456 do not send form?
Just in case is in “olympiawindows dot com” home page.
Any help really appreciated.
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Correction:
The “Phone” field is filled with “123456”
Not that it would make a difference. I think.
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Forgot to mention, the Name, Email address and Message are always different, sometimes simple messages to up to 2 pages long.
That is why I said I find weird they use the same “123456” and by now I received about 40 messages so far.
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The Validate suite of actions can be used to set content type on various fields ie on a phone number field you could set it to number only entry with a min and max character count.
But with a hand filled form it wont take them long to figure that out.
David
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If you haven’t done so already have the Action gather the user’s IP address and see if these are all coming from the same address or range of addresses. If they are then you can use an htaccess file (either directly or via your host’s control panel) to limit their access to the page (or entire site).
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Tim.
On 13 Apr 2011, at 02:02, kitesurfer3 wrote:
I have spammers filling a form in my site always using the same name: “123456”
I am using PHP Feedback Form with Spam trap set. I believe they are hand filling the form, but why will they use the same name?
Is there any way to say if field Name=123456 do not send form?Just in case is in “olympiawindows dot com” home page.
Any help really appreciated.
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Thanks David for your suggestion but you are right, they will figure it out fast.
And yes Tim, I get their IP’s- all different, they will start with 99, 91, 74, … no way to block them, I don’t think.
It would be good if I could silently have the server reject the messages based on a pattern, in this case “123456”
I think I will have to wait until they give up, if there is nothing else I can do
Thanks for trying to help anyway.
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At least try Validate and set to a min of 10 characters - does that cover US phone nos?
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