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Why am I getting spam emails through my website?
If you list your email address on your website, chances are it’s being harvested by email spam bot programs. One way is to replace your email with an image of your email. Since these bots can only read text they won’t be able to read your email address, and humans can still see it.
How do I stop getting spam emails from my website?
That’s why in this article I’m going to go over 7 ways to stop spam emails from your website.
- Keep your domain private.
- Use CAPTCHA on your forms.
- Use a honeypot.
- Prevent email harvesting.
- Use Akismet or something similar.
- Block bad countries.
- Disallow bots.
Why do I get spam when I put my email on my website?
If you list your email address on your website, chances are it’s being harvested by email spam bot programs. What these programs do is scour the Internet for websites that list an email address. Then they collect the email and later on someone sends out spam to it.
How can I stop spam on my user registration form?
When you create a custom registration form, you also benefit from the awesome form security features in WPForms. It adds a secret anti-spam token to every form you create. If an automated spambot tries to submit your user registration form, they’ll get stuck.
Is it bad to get spam on a contact form?
There’s nothing worse than to find that your contact form ( or any form for that matter) has been blown up with spam submissions. This is a huge waste of time and unfortunately, something all website owners have to deal with at some point. Sifting through form spam not only wastes your time.
Is there a way to stop spam in WordPress?
Of course, you can always fight spambots using a WordPress plugin like Email Address Encoder to protect your email addresses and mailto links. That said, this isn’t likely to be a forever solution. Because of this, we recommend using a reliable WordPress contact form plugin like Kali Forms and getting rid of your email address.