7500 Spam Submissions in 4 days - Record Breaker!

We have received in the last 4 days over 7500 spam submissions to our UK Bidding Directory.

The version was phplinkbid 1.2 which we have now upgraded to version 1.4.2.

All the of the submissions were 90% from the same email and the titles that were being submitted looked like"zzvrwe9usdmrgjp".

Has anyone else had this amount of spam submissions in such a short space of time.

I hope this is the end

 

Yeah,

My homepageofthemonth.com dealt with this same bs

It was crazy, we got a spammy "jsngjkGJHFdsosj" type submission about every 10-15 seconds.

I actually deleted about 6500 just last night.

Upgrading does not always solve the problem, so I will pm you with another solution.

It is an easy fix, but I don't want the g*dd*mn spammers to know what it is.

 

If you can share the fix with me as well, i use phplinkbid as well. Freaking spammers are getting on my last nerve.... They waste my time and my bandwidth, and create loads of nonsense like "10incasnjzq" every 20 seconds on mine.

 

wow thats alot of submissions i wonder what kind of bot that got that can do that .. wow..

 

Bid directory is easily subject to spam attack, the same as mine: www.prdir.org

 

i get the same at my contact page but not at my submit page.If you like you can share the fix with me also.

 

Having upgraded to the latest version of phplinkbid it has had a massive positive effect on the spam submissions but they are still coming through!

Because of this problem, even though phplinkbid has some fantastic features and that the scale of spam has decreased, you need to ask yourself if:

Until a mod is found that actually works to stop these spam submissions - do you really want to be in the position of having to delete thousands upon thousands of spam submissions every day?

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Yes - thanks Mike. Did not work on my DIR buddy.

 

maybe you must add code like simple math count before submit button.

 

you have to prevent them by submitting twice by url tracking

 

also try ip ban.

 

vicdigi,

I sent you a pm with a solution.

I have received ZERO spam submissions since I made the changes.

As the old saying goes...You can lead a horse to water...

 

Mikey, the mod installed very easily and worked in the sense that you had to do the maths to continue with the submission.

I left this for an hour sitting proud and what do you know. I check my email and then database and their they are. All those weird and wonderful spammy submissions were working their way through to our database somehow bypassing the capcha!

 

I did say that Mike but since then I've had a few, deleted 3 the other day and 2 more just now. Still an improvement though.

 

Hey who is the spammer ?
please PM me.

 

Try adding a harder visual confirmation. . .

Let me know what worked for you and what didnt. tthanks

 

Thank you all for some of your advices. I will put some of this into action when I get back this evening and post the results a little later.