[Talk] Web form spam - What's the point?

[Terry Richards]

Adam Glass wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When someone fills out a new profile on the FLUX site, I get e-mail to
> review and post it.  We don't censor, but do need to be sure things
> are family friendly and such.
>
> Over the last several months spammers (or programs they use) have been
> filling out our form.  Usually they say things like "Hi, nice site!"
> and then give a link for the product they are selling.  Okay, a new
> form of spam, not a big deal.
>
> But recently there have been a whole bunch of forms that are just
> filled out with complete gibberish.  Every text field says "hhfgdgdf",
> including the link.  Nothing about weight loss, hair loss, etc.  Not
> even a valid URL.
>
> Obviously none of these spams are being posted.  But I am curious as
> to why the gibberish ones are happening.  There have been about ten of
> them in the last couple of days.
>
> Any ideas?


i realize you are asking for why it is happening but think what you 
really want is to save yourself from wasting time,
can you run spell check on the forms and discard any with lots of nonsense?

a little off topic but in the same time frame i have noticed the spam i 
recieve has changed from viagra and other drugs to stock market deals

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