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Questions tagged [spam]

DO NOT USE THIS TAG ON QUESTIONS THAT ARE SPAM, we have a special flag for that! Questions about bypassing somebody else's spam filter are also not welcome. And keep in mind that this is a programming Q&A site, not a general computer support site. Spam is the use/abuse of electronic messaging systems (e.g. e-mail) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

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SVG Spam in chrome with VueJS [closed]

I'm new with template developement, but i do use it for save my time, but now, it's a problem.. When a tring to access at my site in production version, it spamming SVG request in network tab and the ...
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Disable comment function on Word Press when in Cyrillic

Lately I'm facing some spam messages on one of my Word Press blogs. The comments are coming from different IPs all over the world, but what they have in common, they are all in Cyrillic. Now, I was ...
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Having issues reporting storage buckets that are hosting spam and phishing redirects html/javascript files

The following storage buckets are hosting spam and phishing links and I cannot get any google support to forward my report to upper tiers to take action. All I get in response is basically "That'...
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How to spamproof a mailto link?

I want visitors to be able to click on (or copy) an email address directly on my webpage. However, if I could make it (a little bit) harder for bots and other crawlers to get said email address and ...
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Are there any .NET/ JAVA free or opensource SPAM detectors that yield good results?

I am looking for a .NET/ JAVA free or opensource SPAM detectors accessible via an API that yield good results. I would consider paying for a good service that accomplishes this as well, but ideally, I ...
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How can I protect my Drupal Webform website from spam?

I'm using the Captcha module in the forms, but the client informed me that I'm receiving a lot of spam in the contact form submissions. How can I reduce this? And how can I test this locally before ...
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What is the purpose of these long HTML ids?

I've received a spam email with an HTML body with every tag having a very long, unique id. The document doesn't have an accompanying style sheet, and it doesn't have a style tag. The ids appear to be ...
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Wordpress Internal Site Search Spam

I recently noticed a spam attack on Wordpress search flooded with thousands of weird urng, pharmacy keywords causing google to crawl index these pages. We discovered this on global index coverage on ...
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Can spam robots scan PHP pages for email addresses? [closed]

I have a PHP contact form with captcha, for the purpose of trying to limit the spam I get. Within the PHP code I have the actual email address that the form information gets sent to written in the ...
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Prevent automated robots submitting forms to ruby on rails application?

What would be a good decent way to fix a form that is submitted everyday numerous times by robots posting all kind of rubbish through it? I have this beta signup form with a hidden field and a ...
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stopping spam bots in coldfusion

I am blocking a huge number of bots, except the ones from search engines, and then only allowing 2seconds of session management. However, spam bots are still able to by-pass these measure and create ...
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AWS bucket image urls triggers Gmail spam filters consistently

After a particular email template change on one of our top performing emails we noticed the open rate dropped from a consistent 70% to 15%, this happened just by changing the content of the email ...
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No reverse DNS (PTR) entries / I can't set PTR correctly

ERROR: No reverse DNS (PTR) entries. The problem MX records are: 111.150.112.185.in-addr.arpa -> no reverse (PTR) detected You should contact your ISP and ask him to add a PTR record for your ips I ...
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Should I block bot*?

Bandwidth on one of our sites was severely messed with on the 28th of this month. The cpanel only tracks daily access logs and didnt archive them(it does now), using aw stats I found our bot traffic ...
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Accessing Google's Blacklist Database API for Android Phone Application

In Android phones, Google uses a phone number blacklist database in its phone application to prevent calls from known spam numbers. Calls from numbers registered in this database do not go through to ...

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