junk email attacks

[pitzerwm]

FYI, I made both changes and am still getting about 20 in 12 hours. I am just direct them to the deleted folder.

Just for our info. After testing and use for awhile, is there more info/value from these emails than just that the database is down?

All of the failures are because of the recaptcha. I noticed that the phone number is always 123456, the email appears to be correctly formed. In the drop down box, they always choose the same 2 options, the comment area, will usually have garbage, sometimes just "Sexua/pornol" words sometimes URLs. The IP address is always different.

[russellr]

Hi,

Please post the Subject line and first few lines of body.

It doesn't sound like you're receiving FormMail alert messages.

After testing and use for awhile, is there more info/value from these emails than just that the database is down?

I don't understand the question. What database are you referring to? Why would it be "down"?

[pitzerwm]

Sorry for the confusion. The database that I'm talking about is where I have the form info populate. The down is the drop down boxes that I use in my form. Here is the email.

To: pitzer@mysite.com
From: FormMail@mysite.com

The following error occurred in FormMail :
recaptcha
Error=reCaptcha verification failed (incorrect-captcha-sol)



email: kevvin2004@33700.in
realname: Motercalo BHobbit16

FirstName: 'Motercalo'
LastName: 'BHobbit16'
phone: '123456'
distr_2: 'A-OK Equipment Co'
Product: 'Turnkey CW Package'
Comments: 'Hi, I play WoW with my friends and like to live in <a href=http://www.motercalo.in>Motercalo</a> ++'
submit: 'Submit'
Referring page was http://mysite.com/ratings/rating_entry.php
SERVER_NAME was mysite.com
REQUEST_URI was /ratings/formmailhook.php

User IP address was 164.78.248.57
User agent was Opera/8.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

Thanks for all of your help.

[russellr]

Hi,

This is a FormMail alert about a user making an error.

The only reason you're receiving this is because you didn't make the ALERT_ON_USER_ERROR setting I suggested earlier.

Please read the documentation I provided links to, and, if you don't understand, either post a question in the Community Support forum, or purchase a support subscription.

[pitzerwm]

Yes, you are right, I misread the instructions. I did read them, and tried to follow them, just screwed up.

Thanks for your patience