![]() The mail scripts can be executed anywhere from 5-95 times during spamming sessions…or until their finger gets tired or they feel satisfied.Ģ. The execution times vary in the range of 2-5 seconds…so this leads me to guess that it is a human executing the script…not a bot programmed to execute at regular intervals. Once past the user-side validation, the script is executed many times. This leads me to believe that this spammer is using a browser script, such as a greasemonkey script, to fill in these forms…So they can get past this email validation. This is to guard against valid users from mis-typing their email address. I am using a javascript user-side check to verify that the email addresses match. IP Address: and Time: spammer or bot grabs the domain name from the website where the online contact / inquiry form resides…and…places that domain on the end of the random email address as shown above. For example, the emails sent via my forms usually look like this: The spammer or bot is filling in all fields, including my hidden fields ( such as IP address grabber and date/time script) with randomly generated email addresses. ![]() Online contact / inquiry forms are being abused or submitted multiple times within a span of about 2-5 seconds. This way we might be able to aid others in combatting this problem with documentation.ġ. If you have similar problems, and would like to add to this post, please do so. I realize that if you have found a solution to this problem, you might not want to reveal your solution…but any help would be greatly appreciated. I would like any suggestions on how to combat this problem if possible. This post is long, but I tried to document as much as possible. By posting this, I wanted to document or "make known" some of the problems I have been having with my online forms being spammed or abused.
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