Crazy emails - hacker?
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- The Wingman
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Rudy Leffler wrote:
I could understand spam. I just can't understand the bogus names and email addresses and the long list of bogus website addresses. I can't figure out what they could accomplish sending that to the owner of the site.
One it could be a bot...which is indiscriminate and two, it could be they are in test mode and last they could really be stupid spammers.
I say a combination of all three.
Try not to reason why spammers do every little thing. LOL - "You can learn a lot from a dummy. So, pay attention to yourself." Quote by me.
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- Greg Wright
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- I get these types of emails, too, sometimes. They are from spambots crawling the net filling out any form they can find with their wares. Simply adding a captcha field to your forms should do the trick. I make it a standard practice to use a captcha field on all forms and haven't gotten any more of these for quite a while.
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- prim
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- Maybe it comes via web forms. Is the site owner using captcha or a similar solution?
- Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
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- DanG
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- Rudy Leffler
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- For some reason I wasn't thinking about it coming from the contact form. No there is no captcha. I will look into adding it. Thanks for the advice!
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- John Oster
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I maintain a Joomla/RocketTheme site on Godaddy. When I last checked in, it said my file usage was limited out and I needed to buy "new resources". I looked in the directory and found a mailbox in Perl5 that contained thousands of text emails with strange code. The Perl5 was above the public/html directory so my RocketTheme/Joomla files weren't even touched. In fact I still get updates from the Joomla system. When I talked to a tech guy, he informed me that I had 180,000 of these emails!! They were all about 16K but that adds up! He said he cut off the access so the robot couldn't send any more emails. But surprisingly they weren't alarmed at all about this! I started to delete them using FTP but even at 3,000 at a time it will take HOURS to finish! Any thoughts on this? The permission on the first batch of these was 0600 but now I am into 0640. Since the box has been closed I don't worry but still, this has got to be some weird shit! I guess my question is (if anyone looks at this) does RocketTheme use Perl5 and if not, why is it there in the first place? Why can't I just get rid of the Perl5?
And something else, I noticed I couldn't use Filezilla ftp like I did in the past. None of my new user ftp accounts worked. It was only my Cpanel user name and password that allowed my to use ftp. When I asked Godaddy's tech guy why I, as administrator, couldn't get any new ftp users going, he just said "I don't know."(?!) Were these possibly emails used in attacking a server somewhere? I had a subscribe box open for a while but when I started getting robot "users" I shut it down. Maybe I was too late? - Last Edit: 7 years 11 months ago by John Oster.
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