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Help I'm Capturing spammers IP’s what do I do with them?


Nomax5

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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

 

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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.

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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.

 

 

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