You can be sure of one thing. If there exists a method for spammers to utilize in order to make sure their crap gets delivered, they will find it!
Naturally, the motivation is money, and as we all know, that’s one powerful motivator.
The latest trick I am seeing them press into service is using spam-bots that seek out and deliver spam via a web site’s contact page. You can see my contact page here.
You may notice, if you look at my contact page, that I have a notice there informing visitors that spamming me via that page will be a complete waste of their time. However, a spam-bot can’t read in the traditional sense, and frankly I’m not sure how much good a notice like that will do when a human visitor visits that page, but what the heck, it is the truth.
Spam-bots are computer programs that are designed to search the Internet for web sites that have pages that allow visitors to contact the owner or operator of the web site. I’m sure there are many different varieties of spam-bots, but the one I am concerned with for the purpose of this article is the one that visits web site contact pages and posts spam, or perhaps I should say attempts to post spam.
This the second instance of a spam-bot visiting my contact page and as you can see below, it was not entirely successful. You can see much of the typical nonsense content that the spam-bot uses to attempt to fool spam filters that might be programmed to look for words like “Viagra” or “Free” or “Phentermine” and then refuse to accept messages containing those words since they are quite likely to be spam.
Although the instances of spam-bots visiting my contact page have been few, I can only imagine that it will worsen with the passage of time and I will be forced to install a captcha script in order to prevent the contact page from accepting any messages unless an actual person is using it.
Anyway, for amusement, I have included the content of one of these spam-bot messages that have been left for my via my contact page. I can only wish these idiots better luck making these things function as they intend, however I’d much rather wish something else on them if given the choice.
Here’s one of the little tidbits they left for me:
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 7:31 PM
Subject: HomesForNH Contact Reqest
From:he
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e8c4d9e70c1a43bddbd8e725c25866bc
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: by
bcc: frekiforbes@aol.com
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\”us-ascii\”
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
hired for the hay and corn harvest we thought we could do without her at home. ut now, od willing must travel on. ordially he shook tto s hand, and pursued his slow journey. he brothers of the eelman were active fishermen, as
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E-Mail:
Regarding:
From: 200.192.132.125 relay.ag2.com.br
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