: What kind of spam is this on our form? We're receiving a lot of spam that looks like this: Form field 1 (textfields): duYYAJPNaMVsC Form field 2: icDiQOVRy Form field 3:

@Murray155

The spammer is probably following this pattern, adapted from legitimate SEO folks who test Google indexing:


Find a few long strings that return no Google results.
Submit the strings to your form
Search Google to see if the content shows up in the search results now

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@Karen161

I all of a sudden started getting spam like that from one of my contact us forms. It included links (that I was cautious to never click on). The inputs contained gobbly-gook like your example.

I created a home baked captcha-ish solution:
"What was the color of Napoleons' White horse?" If the answer was "White" then my server sent me the email.

Spam went away--which like I suspected--was caused by an automated bot.

I've seen other tests like this. For example, asking what the sum of 2 numbers is.

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@Sarah324

They're probably just testing your form to see if it is vulnerable. If it succeeds your site probably gets added to an automated tool and then will get "normal" spam on a regular basis.

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