[thelist] Site getting spammed

Hans Zaunere lists at zaunere.com
Fri Nov 18 13:44:31 CST 2005



Robert Vreeland wrote on Friday, November 18, 2005 11:47 AM:
> Hello List,
> 
> One of my client's web site is getting spammed, or something like it.
> It appears as though someone is using a script to auto-fill their
> email newsletter registration form; every field is being filled in
> with the same bogus email address using my client's domain name. For
> example: 
> Email : 245she at clients_domain.com
> confirm email : 245she at clients_domain.com
> Name : : 245she at clients_domain.com
> Address : 245she at clients_domain.com
> City: : 245she at clients_domain.com
> 
> etc..
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what this is meant to do? Are they phishing
> for a reply address or seeing if they can get a database error?

This is likely an attempt to spam others.

http://www.nyphp.org/phundamentals/email_header_injection.php

And some discussion:

http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/talk/2005-September/thread.html

(search for "feedback scripts")



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