<div dir="ltr">+1 for a spambot.<div><br></div><div>The "smoking gun" for me is the fact that if it was a case of valid details being "munged" by a Unicode or codepage issue then I would not expect this to affect numeric digits (as in phone numbers) and I certainly wouldn't expect the only piece of data to survive any munging to be the "@" and ".com" in the email address.<br>
<br>My guess is that if that field on the form were not labelled as "Email" then this field would also have simply been filled with junk but the spambot is doing a minimal amount of work to try to ensure that the junk details pass basic validation (i.e. is a valid email address). It is surprising that it isn't doing the same thing for a field labelled "Phone" and filling it with a phone number (tho the correct format for this is potentially geographically sensitive so may not have been considered worth the effort), but in any case I doubt that spambots go through rigorous functional requirements, design, i18N and testing before being deployed. :)<br>
<br>J</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 March 2014 20:10, John C <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jc@sunshinesoftware.co.nz" target="_blank">jc@sunshinesoftware.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-NZ" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Hi all<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">I have this website with a contact page (in PHP & html) where any person can submit a request with their contact details which is emails to me after clicking a submit button.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">All works fine, however. So now and then I receive an email from this website/page but details don't seem being filled in at "page level" but in another way. This as the page does a submit validation check and the submitted phone number is e.g. "</span> LbXwjLfDDTFkIuBkPP<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"> " something my validator doesn't allow for. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Also other details are like:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Name: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d">Bjmpynut</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Organisation: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d">ahTKXyxtYnCdo</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Position: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d">Bjmpynut</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Phone: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d">LbXwjLfDDTFkIuBkPP</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Email: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"><a href="mailto:gipnpmhk@uohrokgr.com" target="_blank">gipnpmhk@uohrokgr.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">All looks very suspicious. Any clues how this could happen at all and how to prevent this?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">The webpage in question is at <a href="http://www.relacs.co.nz/ContactUs.php" target="_blank">http://www.relacs.co.nz/ContactUs.php</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">The email creator resides in the post process of the page like:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> if($_POST['Submit']=="Submit")<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> {<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Name = $_POST['InputName'];<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Email = $_POST['InputEmail'];<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Phone =$_POST['InputPhone'];<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Company = $_POST['InputCompany'];<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Position = $_POST['InputPosition'];<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Subject = $_POST['Subject'];<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Comment = $_POST['InputComment'];<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $body = "Name: $Name\n\n";<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $body.= "Company: $Company\n\n";<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $body.= "Position: $Position\n\n";<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $body.= "Phone: $Phone\n\n";<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $body.= "Email: $Email\n\n";<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $body.= "Subject: $Subject\n\n";<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $body.= "Comment: $Comment";<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Receiver = "<a href="mailto:info@relacs.co.nz" target="_blank">info@relacs.co.nz</a>" ;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $send = mail($Receiver, "Feedback website - RELACS", $body, "From: $Email");<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> $Msg = "Thank you $Name for your feedback. We will get back to you ASAP";<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0d0d0d"> }</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Thanks for any help and/or suggestions.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">John Ch<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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