Spam Bot? Is this a new form of hell?

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I was wondering if anybody has see this before.

I use contact form 7 on many of my lead gen sites because they are just local leads and I needed a better way to return a better looking completed form to my client. This is the reason I don't use Aweber, the completed form you get back looks terrible. Customers hated it.

Anyway the point is I use contact form 7 with captcha in the form. Well before I added captcha I would get this kind of spam back all the time, like 10 or 20 an hour.

Here is what it looks like....

From: pglypgwhg <qrpilo@afsbkw.com>
Subject: eftwidlrRbExmHjUAu
What would you like to rent? Rent a Home

**You have a new lead - Please make contact.

Message Body:
awEBUq <a href="http://ffqcpjbkqmgr.com/">ffqcpjbkqmgr</a>, zydpybqlrnwo, [link=http://npzrfugkjnbs.com/]npzrfugkjnbs[/link], http://enltmnmbnwtf.com/


Now all of a sudden it is passing through the captcha form and I am getting hit with this on a ton of my sites.


Any idea's on how to stop it?


Also, I am trying to figure out what this spam is trying to achieve. The links go nowhere so whats the point?



Rob
#bot #form #hell #spam
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    • Profile picture of the author rhj12345
      Originally Posted by InitialEffort View Post

      Just IP ban the bot or use Robots.txt to stop it.
      I will look at that.

      Contact form 7 lets you add a "Quiz" like 1000+Zero+Ten = ? and this keeps working with captcha.

      That seems to work for now.

      Thanks

      Rob
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  • Profile picture of the author Ti
    Robots.txt doesn't stop anything, it simply is a preference file for the big search engines.
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