forms and spambot observation

[Beverleyh]

I have a page on my website with several forms and I notice I'm only getting spammed through the very first form.

There's nothing majorly different between the fields in each form so I was wondering, do bots (or whatever generates the spam) only crawl a web page until they find a form, submit it, then leave?

If this is the case, could a very basic/simply anti-spam measure be to include a fake form in a hidden div above the real one so it gets crawled and submitted instead of the real one?

Beverley

[fobos]

Beverlyh,
Hi, i dont know if this is what you are looking for, but a similar person has posted the same thing. Here is the link to the post. let me know if this is correct??

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=46731

[eve55]

Try using http://akismet.com
Its the anti spam feature used by wordpress.

[Beverleyh]

Its OK - I have anti-spam scripts/protection in place and do not actually get any coming through into my inbox but I have a spam-trap script that logs the attacks, all of which only come from the first form on the web page.

My post was just an observation, not a request for scripts.

thanks