I’ve been getting an increasing amount of spam to my directory’s submission email address. The email is only used for collecting submissions and it’s not posted any where. It seems like spammers are setting up a directory to collect email addresses.
I’ll add the spammer’s domains and email addresses later…
Okay, here are the apparent email spamming domains:
- mail.ru
- 1000trails.com
- 0733.com
- henselphelps.com
- foxconn.com
- 1-shops.com
- barbary.com
- 10-31.com
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This site is not dead.
In fact it’s been the only thing I’ve been able to think about for the past few weeks. During that time I’ve come to a few realizations.
While I understand php enough to be able to understand the code and know what I’m after. I still lack the basic understanding of how to get it to work. I’m learning the hard way, and I’m not able to just pay some one else to write my code. I’m working as hard so please be patient.
Information is from here
Spammer one
Email:
Spammer two
Spammer three
This spammer has been confirmed here
Domains:
Ip’s used:
Name used:
Email used:
Title used:
Description used:
Reason:
In order to make every thing clear here’s a little explanation on how I’ve visioned the site to function.
Sites will be added to the grey list with out confirmation from others. In order for the spammers to get escalated to the black list two other people need to confirm that the spammers listed are indeed spammers within thirty days.
If no one can confirm a listing on the grey list within the thirty days provided it will be down graded and marked as such.
When any list changes be it black, grey, or white. There will be an announcement with what was added or removed.
Any intentional abuse of this site and I’ll make any information I have of the abuser public.
I would like to mention that many directory owners have a privacy policy, please update it. I cannot be held accountable if you do not update your privacy policy to include the sharing of abuser’s information.
So there’s the plan. The only vital aspect is the participation of other concerned directory owners.
I found a post on DigitalPoint forums posted by GTech
I saw these, before I took my directory paid. Nothing stops a spammer so cold in their tracks as seeing a price to submit a link Though I must admit, a few have tried to sneak a free link in, even after I went paid. Takes all kinds, I guess.
If you are using PHPLD, you can open your submit.php file and at the very top, add the following:
* @link http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/
* @copyright 2004-2006 NetCreated, Inc. (http://www.netcreated.com/)
* @package PHPLinkDirectory
* @version 3.0.x
*
*///spammers list
if ($_REQUEST['OWNER_EMAIL'] == 'peqer@pntq.com') {exit;}
if ($_REQUEST['OWNER_EMAIL'] == 'qutq@oqtonliqe.net') {exit;}
if ($_REQUEST['OWNER_EMAIL'] == 'weqmaqter@scqqtaqart.com') {exit;}
if ($_REQUEST['OWNER_EMAIL'] == 'weqmaqter_qqeer@yahoo.com') {exit;}
if (strpos($_REQUEST['OWNER_EMAIL'], 'jqqlnqah.com')) {exit;}
//add more here as needed
$ip_address = GetEnv('REMOTE_ADDR');
if (strpos($ip_address, '125.23.60.') === true) {exit;}
if (strpos($ip_address, '125.23.49.') === true) {exit;}
if (strpos($ip_address, '203.134.198.') === true) {exit;}
if (strpos($ip_address, '203.91.133.') === true) {exit;}
if (strpos($ip_address, '203.134.203.') === true) {exit;}
if (strpos($ip_address, '59.93.204.') === true) {exit;}
if (strpos($ip_address, '59.94.245.') === true) {exit;}
if (strpos($ip_address, '209.128.236.') === true) {exit;}
//add more here as needed
Added some ‘q’s to the email addy’s above.Basically, just replace the email addresses in the code with one’s you get from spammers. Replace a partial IP address above with a partial from your spammers. When you get a new spam email address, just copy/paste a line, change the email address, upload your submit page and you can stop them cold.
What this does is, before the submit.php page is processed, the code above checks your spammer list by email and IP. If a bad IP or email is found, then it exits the script all together. Meaning the submission isn’t even added to the database.
Now while this is a great way to stop directory spammers let’s take it a few steps further, and apply it to any directory that is coded in php.
Now lets examine the first command:
if ($_REQUEST['OWNER_EMAIL'] == 'user@email.com') {exit;}
This line is specific to phplinkdirectory. The reason being is because it checks the field “OWNER_EMAIL” when the form is submitted.
Now if you run another type of script it’s simple to change. Just navigate to your submission page and view the html source. Find in that page the name for the field where you enter your email address. *Hint search for email.
Once you found it swap it for OWNER_EMAIL and your done!
Now onto the second type of command.
if (strpos($_REQUEST['OWNER_EMAIL'], 'domain.com')) {exit;}
What this does is check the email field for domain.com and denies it if found.
The next segment requires the submitter’s ip address to be stored in a variable.
$ip_address = GetEnv('REMOTE_ADDR');
Once it’s stored you can now stop submissions with the following code.
if (strpos($ip_address, '00.00.00.') === true) {exit;}
If you’ll notice the ip address doesn’t contain the last set of numbers. This is because while banning the specific ip address would work, once the spammer got a new ip address you would have to repeat the whole process again.
This site is because every day I get spam submissions into my directories. Every day I delete what I have to and ban who I need to. This goes on daily with every other directory in existence.
In order to help ourselves and every other directory owner around we need to as a community figure out who to stop and who just made a few mistakes. I hope this site will fill that purpose.
I will contribute what I can and I hope that others will feel the same way I do about this and contribute what they can so together we will be a force to reckon with.
bigleague