Getting spam from a form in my site

Server Config
1

I still can’t understand why there’s no longer a JSP forum here (still have PHP & .NET, why no JSP?)

I had a “signup” form in my photo site… but all of a sudden about three weeks ago started getting tons of emails thru that form, I can tell it’s spam… have had that form there for about six years, and after getting maybe three emails a year, now all of a sudden have started getting about three a day… so I eliminated that form… but am still getting the “signup” emails… how can they send emails to my email address (which appears only on back-end, not front-end), even though the form is no longer there? how on earth do they do this?? is there a way to stop these emails?

(actually what I get is not technically spam… it’s just an attempt by them to get my email address (if I ever email them) so they can get my email address so they can send me spam afterwards… is my assumption…)

thank you…

2

is your email address a catchall? does it receive emails sent to any email address on your domain?

3

It may be that the page with the form exists in some database and that’s what’s being used - at least the e-mail address may still exist.

Regards,

DK

4

it’s not a “domain” address, it’s a gmail address… it’s my primary address…

man, I’ve had that form there literally for years, about six years, to be exact, all of a sudden a few weeks ago started getting all these emails…

thank you…

5

how on earth do get they my email address, when it does not appear on the front-end at all?

only way to send email to it is thru the form… (of so I thought…)

thank you…

6

Could you have replied to one of the forum messages (thinking it was legitimate)? Otherwise, what makes you believe the form gave away your address? I have GMail too, and get tons of spam from all over the place. Luckily. Google is very good at filtering it out.