DPChallenge: A Digital Photography Contest You are not logged in. (log in or register
 

DPChallenge Forums >> Photography Discussion >> I just got spammed via my website
Pages:  
Showing posts 1 - 10 of 10, (reverse)
AuthorThread
11/16/2005 09:53:11 AM · #1
Just got this email directed from my homepage:

Hello,

If you want to earn money from your digital photographs and graphics. Please go to www.stockphotomedia.com STOCKPHOTOMEDIA Inc. is a Swedish based company with one ambition - to provide northern Europe with unique
high quality photography at a low cost - Welcome!

Income per download 35-55% from each sale you make.

Best Regards from
/Team Stockphotomedia


Anyone ever hear of them? Work with them?
11/16/2005 09:56:14 AM · #2
Little bit of info here.
11/16/2005 09:58:15 AM · #3
Ah yes. Knew I'd heard the name somewhere. Wonder how they found me/my webpage. Are they desperate & googling photographers worldwide? lol
11/16/2005 10:56:56 AM · #4
I got the same Email too!

Message edited by author 2005-11-16 11:07:29.
11/16/2005 11:12:03 AM · #5
There are web crawlers that scan webpages, forums, pretty much anythiing on the web for email addresses and then you get spam. Welcome to the new millennium!
11/16/2005 11:45:25 AM · #6
Yeah, those same guys spammed me with my own website too.

!@#$%

Frankly, if you can find out where they are you could file a lawsuit. As they have used your business name to solicit.

;)

But most likely they're from out-of-the-country. *grin*
11/16/2005 12:39:55 PM · #7
i have uploading a lot to them, but havn't got many downloads.. they still seem rather slow.

maybe they'll pick up
11/16/2005 12:41:10 PM · #8
Originally posted by theSaj:

Yeah, those same guys spammed me with my own website too.

!@#$%

Frankly, if you can find out where they are you could file a lawsuit. As they have used your business name to solicit.

;)

But most likely they're from out-of-the-country. *grin*


They're Sweedish

Message edited by author 2005-11-16 12:41:33.
11/17/2005 12:42:30 AM · #9
Crawlers look for email addresses by looking for the @ sign or the 'mailto' tag. Try giving your email on your webpages as an image; a little gif file with your email address on it cannot be found. Another alternative is to use PHP or any other mailer code and make a contact form.
11/17/2005 06:21:33 PM · #10
Here's a good run-down of some of the options available to combat the spambot problem:

//www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/492.htm
Pages:  
Current Server Time: 04/17/2024 11:16:54 PM

Please log in or register to post to the forums.


Home - Challenges - Community - League - Photos - Cameras - Lenses - Learn - Prints! - Help - Terms of Use - Privacy - Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2024 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 04/17/2024 11:16:54 PM EDT.