Contact Us Spam? Receiving some blank emails from Contact Us Page and they look bogus

[higgalls]

Hey Everyone,

 

A few days ago I had problems with my webhost suddenly turning on SMTP authentication and not telling me.

 

Anyway, I have now gotten it sorted by installing the latest version of email.php from the latest version of the OsCommerce build, and then install the SMTP Authentication contrib (version 1.2), and the emails are now going through fine.

 

However, I have noticed that I have started getting emails with the body completely empty, and saying they are from people such as "Andrea" from [email protected] etc.

 

I have been receiveing a few of these per day since.

 

Does anyone know what is going on? Are people trying to exploit my contact_us page (and they were successfully doing it before, but now it is failing and just going to my email in the form of a blank email)?

 

Any ideas would be great.

 

Cheers,

Chris

[usernamenone]

Some hosting companies have ip tracking and ip blocking. If you are one of the lucky ones track that ip and block it from you site. There is also an email contrib that tracks the ip address. don't know which one it is but you may try that.

 

 

 

Hey Everyone,

 

A few days ago I had problems with my webhost suddenly turning on SMTP authentication and not telling me.

 

Anyway, I have now gotten it sorted by installing the latest version of email.php from the latest version of the OsCommerce build, and then install the SMTP Authentication contrib (version 1.2), and the emails are now going through fine.

 

However, I have noticed that I have started getting emails with the body completely empty, and saying they are from people such as "Andrea" from [email protected] etc.

 

I have been receiveing a few of these per day since.

 

Does anyone know what is going on? Are people trying to exploit my contact_us page (and they were successfully doing it before, but now it is failing and just going to my email in the form of a blank email)?

 

Any ideas would be great.

 

Cheers,

Chris