I have been getting a lot of spam through some of my forms lately so I have upgraded my cgi-bin mail forms to a php based form with the captcha verification image. The older forms used a .txt file to process the form so I deleted it. I uploaded the changes about a week ago and somehow I am still getting forms submitted using the older format from that deleted .txt file. How is that possible? Have they stored/cached both my older form and the .txt file?
I used to have an Excite email account which was virtually spam free for 5+ years! Then, I made the mistake of using it to register domain names on GoDaddy and haven't received anything but spam on it since
What gets me is that they are using an html form to spam that doesn't even exist anymore. It has been deleted. Would you think that they would ever come back to my site to get a newer version of the form in turn deleting the old one? Or will I just keep getting email from this same bot?
it's not the form it's your address they've gotten a hold of.. I'm guessing your address has been picked up by a spider.
That is what I have done with the new forms and I am getting no spam through them. I know this because I have the email that gets sent formatted a certain way saying that it is coming from this new captcha form. If they just had my email address, then I would understand getting spam in all shapes and sizes but I am getting spam that is being sent through the old form. The emails I am getting look identical to the forms I got before I changed my forms. I guess they could have somehow saved the form that was sent (like you can in outlook or any email client) and they are just resending the sent email. That is the only thing I can think of which still doesn't make much sense...