robot email inquiry

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by bbxrider, Nov 16, 2008.

  1. #1
    every couple days i get a (robot sent?) email info request from my website to me, the webmaster. its a form for the typical website, contact us, send a message etc.
    here is a typical email:
    Message:
    fabrik_internal_id :
    time_date : 2008-11-16
    last name : 1997
    first name : fqiczahotw
    address 1 : xCaiqjyRWv
    address 2 : JUNyZndaM
    city : xAioWqkfCt
    state : CA
    city : jQgyzXtayHuEloXXq

    all the fields on the form are filled in. just wondering what it might be?
    search engine robot?
    filling out a form for info, i'm having a hard time figuring what value or purpose this would be for a search engine robot?
    a hack probing attempt just to see if its a valid email and/or something else to prepare a hack attempt?
    an email spammer probe to get a list of valid email addresses?
    or something else?

    bob
     
    bbxrider, Nov 16, 2008 IP
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    could be spam.bot.. try to add captcha into your form for security purposes.
     
    blowingideas, Nov 17, 2008 IP
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    thanks for the help, i see it all the time, now finally i know its captcha.
    after checking out some scripts i see there are php, java, etc.
    since it looks like a simple script, why would you not use java and have that short client/browser side processing as opposed to sending the form round trip to the server with all that time and overhead?
    i suppose it would only be 1 necessary anyway trip to server if the captcha response was ok.
    bob
     
    bbxrider, Nov 17, 2008 IP