How to stop developers from contacting me to offer their services

  • I purchased a new domain and, several months later, published a very basic website that I have not announced, publicized or used to reach customers, etc. Almost immediately, I started receiving emails from “developers” asking me if I want to hire them. Some of the emails seem personalized as though they have visited the site. However, the ‘spam’ they are sending is not coming from the site’s contact form. They are using an email address – info@ + mydomain.com – to contact me.

    I know the site is public, but how are they finding it or what is driving these “developers” to my site? Is there some sort of announcement that gets sent out when anyone publishes a site and, more importantly, can it be turned off?

    The domain was originally purchased via google, then squarespace became the registrar. I have the “whois” turned on. I have hosting through another company and am blocking the individual email accounts which are coming from outlook and hotmail addresses.

    Thank you

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  • Your question has nothing to do with WordPress, which is what this forum is about. Nevertheless, a few hints:

    The info@ e-mail address has been the standard e-mail address for decades. It is therefore also used by many spam senders. To avoid incoming spam, your email service provider (your hoster) must provide anti-spam mechanisms. This includes not only recognizing emails that have already arrived but also rejecting emails before they even reach the email server. Nowadays this is done, for example, by checking the SPF record of the sending domain, as well as DKIM and DMARC. Your host would have to look into this and configure it on their systems, if they haven’t already done so.

    If your host is not helpful enough, you are free to choose another one.

    But as I said: this has nothing to do with WordPress.

    Thread Starter znm200

    (@znm200)

    Thanks for responding. I did contact the host. Based on your suggestions, I will contact them again. The email addresses are difficult to block because they are name @hotmail.com @outlook.

    My question remains – what is driving this type of traffic to my site? At the time as I started to build the site, WordPress sent an automatic “hello world” blog post that attracted the first spam. I wonder if there is a correlation?

    Once again: this has nothing to do with WordPress. There simply has to be a domain, then the spambots will text the info@ address. This is why you always need effective anti-spam protection for incoming e-mail traffic. This can neither be caused nor controlled by WordPress.

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