Enquiry Form Spam

Two things.
I have an Enquiry Form on my site and every now and then I
receive a reply which is totally blank and although some fields are
mandatory (name, email address), which I have set a behaviour for.
I am puzzled how this gets through the system.
The next is gobbledygook entries.
Every now and then I receive something like the reply below,
is the way around this to ask the user to fill in some random
numbers like we have probably all seen somewhere on a form, and if
so, how are these generated?

Or a much simpler way than captcha is this (requires php
enabled
hosting)
http://geekministry.com/blog_article.php?id=40
or the extended
version
http://www.avenuedesigners.com/blog/articles.php?ref=30
HTH
Kim
AlanShaw wrote:
> Two things.
>
> I have an Enquiry Form on my site and every now and then
I receive a reply
> which is totally blank and although some fields are
mandatory (name, email
> address), which I have set a behaviour for. I am puzzled
how this gets through
> the system.
>
> The next is gobbledygook entries.
>
> Every now and then I receive something like the reply
below, is the way around
> this to ask the user to fill in some random numbers like
we have probably all
> seen somewhere on a form, and if so, how are these
generated?
>
>
>
>
> name: ????????
> company name: ????????
> Address: ????<a
>
href=http://http://www.well-racking.com/main.asp>????</a>??????????...??????????
> :
> ???????????????? ?? ???????? ??
> ?????????????????????????????? ??
> ?? ?????? ????/?????????? ?? ?????????? ?? ?????????? ??
> ???????????????? ...
>
> Info Required: ????<a
>
href=http://http://www.well-racking.com/main.asp>????</a>??????????...??????????
> :
> ???????????????? ?? ???????? ??
> ?????????????????????????????? ??
> ?? ?????? ????/?????????? ?? ?????????? ?? ?????????? ??
> ???????????????? ...
>
> telephone number: 020-78907890
> email address: [email protected]
> submit: Submit Form
>
kim
http://geekministry.com

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and I have
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@$phone = addslashes($_POST['phone']);
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@$comments = addslashes($_POST['comments']);
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"eclipsme" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> GPaul wrote:
>> Thank you to everyone for helping, and sorry for the
delay, I ran into
>> some other issues that needed attention.
>>
>> So I have changed it to the #important DIV, and it
does not appear to
>> show up (only checked one computer), and I like the
idea of just letting
>> it die if the form field is filled out, as listed
below. Where does that
>> script end? Is this how the script should be?
>>
>> // checks if bot
>>
>> if ($_POST['address2'] != '' ){
>>
>> // The hidden fields have been changed
>> // Do something
>> die("Changed field");
>>
>> } else {
>>
>> }
>>
>> And leave out the
>>
>> // Do more error checking?
>> // Send the email
>> // Do the rest of your script
>> // Don't forget the final brace
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks again for all the suggestions.
>>
>> Gary
>>
> Any line in PHP that begins // is a comment and have no
effect on the
> script itself. You could also leave out this:
>
> else {
> }
>
> Harvey

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Hi,
There's no known way to restrict this from being add within comments.
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jlkappler wrote:
I published a website two weeks ago and in the first week the contact form started getting hit with spam. Here is an example of one of many similiar, note the email address is always different but yet a gmail acct:
Name: ã‚¯ãƒã‚¨ è²¡å¸ƒ å…¬å¼
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addresses in the e-mail form, numerals only for the phone number,
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"Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:17:16 +0000 (UTC), "meladorri"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am not a programmer by any means, I am a Graphic
Designer with decent
>> HTML
>>and CSS knowledge but little other programming
knowledge. If anyone could
>>point
>>me in a direction that can help me solve this problem
I would really
>>appreciate
>>it!
>
> Just add a form field that asks a simple question like
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> that follows Tuesday". Humans will answer correctly,
bots won't.
> --
> Steve
> steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com

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