Keep getting single string spam sent from web form

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Hi all,

I have a contact web form on my website ryangoree.com and it had been fairly quiet for a few months, but I got 11 different emails from it yesterday. Only the name and email were filled out, and the names are all a single string of letters and numbers the same length and starting with the same 4 characters:

59fbXXXXXXXXX

The form is a Hostgator webform and submitted with AJAX after light validation which is being skipped in the case of these emails. It seems like whatever is sending these emails, is running the AJAX directly.

Anyone know what these strings are supposed to be and if I should be worried? If so, is AJAX a bad idea?

Thanks!

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It seems that your formmail.pl has no validation. Hence any bot that parses your form can send an email without even using AJAX.

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