guestbook spam?

I've been using the image verification to help stop all the spamming going on with my guestbooks for weeks now. It hasn't stopped all of it, but it sure does help, thanks to Carbonize!

I still get spam in my guestbook, it's obvious spam to me when they sign both the guestbooks I have on separate sites, with the same info. I even have on top of my guestbook this text....
"Please, no invitations to online groups or business websites."
Obviously some people don't see that part

This is the sort of spam I get that I thought for sure came from a bot, but I'm guessing they are actually taking time to sign the books themselves? Both of these entries came 5 minutes apart, from the same person in the same guestbook....

Host: m320-mp1.cvx5-a.bre.dial.ntli.net (IP 62.253.93.64 London, England)
dodi
URL: http://www.imobiliare-vittorio.ro
one of the best

filo
URL: http://www.discounthotel-worldwide.com
cool site guys

I'd love to stop these guys from signing my books with their business atspace.com websites! There are others I haven't listed.

Laslo Alter
e-mail laslo_alt@livemail.com
URL: http://home-business.atspace.com/
Location: Budapest
Host: www.optosat.hu (IP 195.38.127.26 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY)
Greetings! I like this site. It's very beautiful. Keep your job. Best wishes.

a
URL: http://yorkshire-terrier.atspace.com/
Host: localhost
This is a beautiful website! I like all the colors and how easy it is to move from each page. Thanks!

Now today I get these 2 identical entries in separate guestbooks a few hours apart.

a
URL: http://chrysler.yoll.net/
Host: client-207-68-79-5.centuryaluminumwv.com (this domain name doesn't even exist, so no IP can be found)
Hi, nice site - I like it. May be you interesting to exchange links with my. Thanks

a
URL: http://chrysler.yoll.net/
IP: 164.109.154.28 (IP from MARYLAND, US)
Hi, nice site - I like it. May be you interesting to exchange links with my. Thanks

I just thought I'd post here to see if this is happening to others as well. I guess there is nothing we can do to stop these people. Blocking some IP's might work, but I don't think it's that effective actually. I've been seeing more and more 'localhost' host names, any ideas what this means?

Deb

You checked that the image verification is working correctly? Try a test entry with th ewrong characters or none at all.

Carbonize wrote:You checked that the image verification is working correctly? Try a test entry with th ewrong characters or none at all.

Hi Carbonize....the image verification is working when I test it. I've had it on all my books since July. The 'spam' has slowed down quite a bit since then

Deb

Hmmm well either they are putting the entries in by hand, which is slow and tedious but happens, or they have found a way around the image verification but if that was so more of us would of had spam. Try changing the six numbers in the verify.php and see if that makes a difference.