Spam via non-existent contact form ???

The last couple of days I'm receiving increasing amounts of
spam emails
through the contact form of one of my websites. The contact
form is filled
in with random texts about gambling and the sender's address
is always fake.
I can see how a 'spam robot' would be able to fill in this
form and send it
to me.
But the strange thing is that yesterday, as an experiment, I
completely
deleted the page with the contact form from the site and the
same spam
emails still keep coming ?!?
The emails are still exactly formatted the way my server-side
process would
originally format them... I don't understand how this is
done.
Does anyone here have an idea how this is done and/or how to
prevent this?
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Marja

On 11 Aug 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Marja de Vroed
wrote:
> The last couple of days I'm receiving increasing amounts
of spam
> emails through the contact form of one of my websites.
The contact
> form is filled in with random texts about gambling and
the sender's
> address is always fake.
>
> I can see how a 'spam robot' would be able to fill in
this form and
> send it to me.
> But the strange thing is that yesterday, as an
experiment, I
> completely deleted the page with the contact form from
the site and
> the same spam emails still keep coming ?!?
>
> The emails are still exactly formatted the way my
server-side
> process would originally format them... I don't
understand how this
> is done.
>
> Does anyone here have an idea how this is done and/or
how to prevent
> this?
Have you also deleted the script which processes the form?
They could
have set up a form or script which takes advantage of your
script. The
other possibility is latency - there were still some mails
waiting to
make their way through the system when you took the form
down.
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/email.php

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