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by infotainment 844 days ago
It may be trivial, but I think the answer is: they don’t double check. Possibly that’s too much effort to do so?
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I might be wrong on how these spam bots operate, but I assume someone (human) has to write at least a few lines of scripts tailored to the form on the website, to actually submit the spam. Adding a few more lines to also check that the submission went through doesn't seem like much effort.