Un-blanken Believable!! The plague is spreading. It seems that I now have comment spammers spamming one of the forms on my web site. I’ve gotten about a dozen emailed forms in the last few days. They are semi-filled out with some options selected, and a comment that says, “Nice Site. Check out our cool site at…”, followed by a bunch of spam links to Viagra or Mortgage sales sites.
First was email, then web forums, then Blog comments, and now, web forms; no place is safe from these (Edit).
I have a guestbook with a hidden security feature to prevent automated postings (that is you have to actually type the information in the form) and that says clearly that comments are moderated and HTML tags stripped.
So the spammers have to actually spend time and know that their activity is useless. Yet I get about half a dozen spams per day on average. Judging from the patterns, many are repeat spammers. I actually used some patterns to implement automatic removal.
It just makes me wonder why do they do that ?
I’m more surprised that it took you this long to get that. On the first day I put up a stock request form on my site I already got that junk.