Targeting Spam > Whats up with these spammers?
[coldfusion/Flex Blog] I assume that spambot operators get paid for successful submissions, not successful posts. While Askimet may prevent spam from being displayed on your website after being posted, it doesn’t really do anything to prevent it from being posted in the first place.
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[I got Spam?!] Have an Anti Spam Strategy?: Implement a Captcha plugin for your website's feedback form. You should do this to protect against automated feedback form submission by spambots.
[Alex's Ramblings] How does simpleContact deal with spam?: Instead of client-side validation that can be bypassed easily by turning off JavaScript in your browser, simpleContact has server-side validation. Form submissions are checked for the following:
[Capturing Blog] Wordpress Plugins/Spam Tools: The field’s name is dynamically modified with Javascript to a pre-defined name, so that bots which do not support Javascript will not be able to perform a successful submission. This functionality can be overridden, but then it will only protect against poorly made bots that do not parse the comment form, but target
[Raoul's Land Reloaded!] Track ”˜em Down!: On the other hand, a spammer, or better a spambot, usually tries to do more than that. After doing some research myself, I have concluded to the following: Even if they use dynamic IP addresses, which is a fact in most cases, .
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