spam enquiries through my site

[Dragonfly]

hi guys wondered if anyone can help with this im gettin alot and by alot i mean 30+ of these in the last 2 days cant contact the email address and when one of the links is clicked you just get a site under construction message ? has anyone got any ideas how i can stop these as its getting ridiculous and as i said i have 30+ since yesterday . they come via my enquiry form on my site .

here is an example of what im getting seemingly every 10 minutes :

Your name? : [email protected]
Contact number?: Medved
Email address? : http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-week.html
Type of function ie. wedding: http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-week.html
Date of event?: http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-week.html
Approx. number of guests?: http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-week.html
Venue of event? : http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-week.html
is access via a stairs?: no
Playing times Required start/finish?: business week
Any other Requirements or relevant information?: piskasosiska 866496 http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-week.html business week business week business week (http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-week.html) onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-week.html business week * http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-software.html business software business software business software (http://onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-software.html) onlineinvestmentworld.com/business/business-software.html business software *
which website referred you to ours?: business week

[jamesh]

It's spam bots reading your source code on your website...

Usually happens when the actions coding to send it to your email address is all contained on the same page of your site (hidden from the eye but not the bots).....

2 ways to solve this (well many but i'll type 2 for now) either...

add in more scripting so users have to type in a set of numbers/letters displayed in an image before they can send the enquiry.

OR

use a script that has the send to email details in a seperate coded page as it should cut down if not stop the bots from reading and abusing it. - Seems to work with my contact forms..

[Danno13]

Word of warning... never click links in spam email!

All it does is confirm that your email address exists and someone is reading messages sent to it, and so they send you even more!

[Dragonfly]

hi any idea where i can get some scripts for this ? thanks very much for your exceptionally speed response.

[paull]

Bump

Suffer from this problem big time.

Regards

Paul

[Dragonfly]

thank god im not on my own paul have you looked into anything to stop it? looking for something relatively easy as my site is all my own work and im by no means a computer whizz . have been experimenting with html codes recently hence the scrolly bits and bobs. but this thing has just started since yesterday ... ive had 3 more since my original post.

[jamesh]

I know there are a few of us on here with the ability to script one for you....

Just getting the time to sort it out :(

[Dragonfly]

anyone know if there is a script i can copy and paste to my site to help?

[Jiggles]

www.dynamicdrive.com i dont know if they do but its woth a look

[CRAZY K]

www.dynamicdrive.com i dont know if they do but its woth a look

I dealt with a DJ agency recently that has a program which returns all emails to source and forces you to input code letters and numbers manually to check its not spam.

Effective--but offputting for genuine clients:eek:

I am receiving massive amounts of spam now---delete-delete-delete

CRAZY K

[Jiggles]

That Dynamic drive has lots of difffrent Dhtml and java scrips and html for your websites

[Dragonfly]

tried the email scrambler on there but it stopped enquiries bein forwarded to my email address.