Posted by Chuck Anderson on 01/12/07 22:25

I have a contact form on my site (been there for a few years) and just
lately someone has begun using it to send Spam to me - and only to me
(one to three times a day). I can tell because I track the usage of
those contact form scripts (that I wrote) closely. The person is not
even trying to inject anything into the headers, they are just sending
me URLs to their porn sites.

Is there any way to block this kind of usage? I've tried the usual
tricks (hidden form field - checking referrer), but they always (almost)
check out okay. The originating IP address changes every time, of
course - and the porn sites are usually already gone.

I'm already cleaning all my form variables (checking for LF and CR and
content_type and cc:), so that is not my problem. It's just the few
annoying emails I get.

[ ..... Is this actually a productive way for spammers to distribute
their crap ... one email per form?]

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