Comments for blog.limedaley.com/post/anti-spam-tool-for-web-forms

Comment #1351

2007-11-02T13:15:06Z

Generally faked email addresses. (and sometimes use my own address - one customer of mine had a couple thousand bounces the other days, all "sent" from his domain, but with faked usernames. However, since he uses a wildcard on his domain name, he received all of the bounces.

The recent spams I have received on my website have @msn.com addresses, I assume they are faked, but I guess they could be legitimate. I don't think the spammers want a response via email, but just going to their website (which is either hijacked forums, personal websites, or else cheapo domains/hosting)

I see that my latest spam is hosted by bravehosting.com, a free web host. I don't exactly know how these free hosts exist - I guess they don't really care that they have spammers on their system - they presumably still get the ad revenue, so they are happy enough to have all the people visiting their spammer.

Comment #1350

2007-11-02T05:43:50Z

In your experience, do spammers spoof from addrs altogether or do they send from legitimate freemail accounts?

Comment #1349

2007-11-01T20:53:18Z

Well... the spammers have gotten smarter.

I have blocked 1170 spams from the web contact form in the last two months.

But, over the last three days, I have gotten one spam through each day. Annoying.

In other news, Lime Daley is now blocking 5 spams a minute, all day long, and looks like we are heading towards 2 million spams blocked next year. (only 880,869 blocked last year)

Comment #1348

2007-10-04T13:13:48Z

Yeah, I thought perhaps people would find this via a search engine and want to buy it, which that would work as well. I generally have given it to any of my web hosting customers; I can't remember if I have sold it to anyone who wasn't a customer.

Comment #1347

2007-10-04T13:08:59Z

Or you could offer it as a LimeDaley service.... :)