New spam wave happening through the Contact Form
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Team 23
May 19, 2013, 05:12 PM
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in the "About" page. I have received four different spam messages in the last six hours.
Sample:
The following message has been sent to you from insanity asylum (bmwqtdgp@gmail.com) via http://www.23hq.com.
Followed by a couple of spam links. Any idea how we could stop this?
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Team 23
May 19, 2013, 05:54 PM
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There you go, spam never stops. I have updated the contact form to require log in and I have banned the IP ranges where this spam has come from. You seem to have been hit harder by this than most -- and according the server logs only about 120 spam messages have been sent today.
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Team 23
May 19, 2013, 06:50 PM
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Thank you, Steffen, for the swift action! They keep trying, don't they?
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Team 23
May 19, 2013, 06:51 PM
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I actually though they'd be done at some point, but apparently not...
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July 01, 2013, 09:26 PM
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Under this respond form I have to fill in a Captcha. There's no such thing when I send a message via the Contact me link on the About page. Why is that?
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Team 23
July 02, 2013, 06:00 AM
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It's because you're Plus and that we haven't seen the contact form being used for direct person-to-person spamming by Plus users. This might change in the future in which case we'll add the captcha there as well.
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July 02, 2013, 07:59 AM
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Actually I'm not plus.. I'm not completly sure yet if I'm going to use 23 for sure in the future. So I didn't go for a plus account yet. I don't mind if you would set a Captcha requirement for non plus members if helps all members to get rid of spam.
On a side note, I would prever a friendlier Captcha solution at least for the forum. Like a math question, or one of these: http://urlm.co/blog/2011/10/28/creative-captcha/
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