Spam to site with GMail addresses - any way to resolve.
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We are noticing more and more spam around: Customer Name: Sylvia Abernathy Customer Email: sylviaa386@gmail.com Customer Phone Number: Service Type Requested: Please Choose From List Service description: We found your weblisting on one of the back pages of Google. Wouldn’t you rather be up front? Our experts in Search Engine Optimization can help you become more visible and more productive. A quick email will get you details. This is from a site around auto and truck service and is an actual cut and paste. My question is twofold: Is there a way to report individual Gmail addresses to Google as purveyors of spam and beyond a capcha, is there any other work around? This is form to schedule a service appt. so they are not emailing to an info@etc.com type address. It is a contact form. Thanks
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Or, at least some type of mega worm that goes into their computers and flashes pictures of unicorns and pandas....
Any coders out there who are into retribution??????
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Thanks Jeffrey,
I will let you know how it goes from there. We use Captchas, but these (I think) are "seo" firms out of the US. I often send them email in return and never get a response. Unfortunately, it always bugs the client to get them. My wife is in real estate and she never fails to forward them with a note...... "They can get me #1 on Google!!!" =0
Best
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Hey Robert,
I'm still waiting for that app that allows me to respond with a great big hand that comes out of their screen, grabs them by the shirt and bangs their head against the monitor! 8D
Unfortunately it seems a long time in coming.
Sha
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There's a form here for reporting spammy Gmail addresses to Google. I'm not sure how responsive they are or how well this works: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse I've had a lot of luck with captchas in the past for reducing spam. But if an actual person is filling in your form and sending you spam, this obviously won't help. I've seen blog sites with a checkbox to "confirm you are a human" which can supposedly stave off automated captcha readers.
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