Spam

[bowers01 +]

What version of 68 Classifieds are you running?
4.10 Dev

In regards to Spammers...

Is there any chance someone could have a quick look at ecirs module to see why it doesnt work? I tested it myself and the mail still comes straight though.

It is obvisouly the same prick thats doing it to everyone, why they would do it is another question. They are not going to benifit from this at all, so whether it is another company that sells a classifieds script and is trying to drive people away from 68c i dont know.
I have other sites all listed in the same place and they only seem to be hitting my classified site.
This is just a guess with no evidence what so ever.

Nick

[seymourjames +]

Most of the spam of this non-sensical type is designed purely to flood the internet and make it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to decipher true criminal intent in other emails. Like hiding a needle in a haystack. It is possible that 68C sites are targeted but I doubt it. How would anyone get a list of them.

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Curious as to whether this spam that you are getting is through contact or contact the owner? The module posted by Eric is only for the contact owner.

[bowers01 +]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

Curious as to whether this spam that you are getting is through contact or contact the owner? The module posted by Eric is only for the contact owner.

O that explains alot, i got one of these messages for each ad placed on the site. I have 10 ads on my site and i got 10 spam emails so i can assume it was sent to every single ad.

How hard is it to change that module to do it for contact the owner?

@ David: that makes sense. There once was a place on here that had a list of all customer sites, cant find it now and dont even know if it exists any more.

Regards,
Nick

[bowers01 +]

looking at it further it uses
$modules->register('contact_owner_submit', $this, 'checkit');
contact_owner_submit is the viewlisting contact form, so something else is happening.
Nick

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Have you checked your log files for access to your site?

If they are not actually visiting your site and it is just a script (bot) running that goes to a generated link, then they wouldn't have a session started. Typically, if this is the case your log will show the first entry of the visit to a direct link.

I was getting hit heavily, but through the contact us link. The access to the site was a formatted link as if they clicked on the "Report this Ad" within the viewlisting, but the access logs showed that they actually were not. What was really stupid about it is that the email only goes to the admin. another completely non-sensical spam attack.

Bottom line is to thwart this you need to know both how they are entering the site as well as how they are sending the message.

In your case, what I don't understand is that if they are sending it through contact the owner, then why are you getting the emails? Are these your own ads?

[bowers01 +]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

Have you checked your log files for access to your site?

In your case, what I don't understand is that if they are sending it through contact the owner, then why are you getting the emails? Are these your own ads?

No i havnt, i will do that first thing in the morning.

I have 10 of my own ads on there which is why i am getting them. The reCap seems to have stopped it (well i havnt got any spam though my listings yet) But i want to try and remove that as people with bad eyesight cant see it properly.
I am looking at setting up something like this
Honeypot Captcha

Cheers,
Nick