Nomax5 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 I put a little text area form on my home page for feedback Knowing visitors are reluctant to enter their email addresses I left it anonymous Visitors can enter a message and I’ll receive it via email. The day after I received a spam message it was a big list of url’s and they’d tried to do some html type code. So in my send mail script I check the referrer is my site, and if not it sends me their ip and not the message. What did I do wrong? How come the spammer found me so quickly? What is the best way to stop it ? Sorry I only seem to come here when I need help but the truth is I’m not that good and don’t feel ready to give out advice. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Roy PS, I’ve only captured 2 different ip’s so far – but it occurs every day 85.255.119.75 66.249.66.137 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37883-help-im-capturing-spammers-ip%E2%80%99s-what-do-i-do-with-them/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
only one Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 report them to their webprovider, google it... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37883-help-im-capturing-spammers-ip%E2%80%99s-what-do-i-do-with-them/#findComment-181430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypnos Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 There are many sites to track down who owns those IPs. 85.255.119.75-xbox.dedi.inhoster.com (85.255.119.75) is located in Marina Del Rey, California, United States. crawl-66-249-66-137.googlebot.com (66.249.66.137) is located in Australia. You can report the first guy to his ISP, if you know the time and day of the access. You should strip the form of any tags before emailing it to yourself. Otherwise you put yourself at risk. If anyone abuses it again, ban their subnet from your site. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37883-help-im-capturing-spammers-ip%E2%80%99s-what-do-i-do-with-them/#findComment-181472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomax5 Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 Thanks for the advice I went to inhoster.com and reported the abuse but there are tons of reports about this isp on the net I'm not confident. Ideally I would ban entire countries from visiting my sites what is the easiest way to do this? I can do it in my php via looking up the ip on my ip to country db but I'm a little nervous of that from a search engine point. I would be in effect showing some visitors one thing and others another which I believe SE's don't like. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37883-help-im-capturing-spammers-ip%E2%80%99s-what-do-i-do-with-them/#findComment-185668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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