Contact-form ‘spamming’ recently?

  • thecybisarchive · Member ·

    Wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this for the past several months, because it looks like some odd form of spam or phishing to me.

    I will get a Contact Form notification that has only a name and an email. There is never any message. The name and email address are different each time. On average I get one or two during most weeks; for example, got one today (5/16, one yesterday, and one on 5/10). Obviously because this is a contact form submission and not a Comment, there is no WordPress spam filtering.

    Not sure what the intent of something like this is, unless perhaps wanting the blog owner to respond to the supposed person’s email??

    I simply ignore any Contact Form submission that has only a name and email addy but no message. It’s weird, so I am wondering it any other bloggers have been seeing the same thing. If I recall, the first ones showed up last autumn.

    Are other people getting these or am I just lucky? LOL

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • staff-mxhdema · Staff ·

    Hi!

    Thank you for reaching out 🙂

    It may be the case that you are just not receiving the content. That’s unlikely but I wasn’t able to see submissions without any messages on your site’s Form Responses section (Feedback → Form Responses).

    You may want to try and make the message field mandatory (required) as explained here: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/form-block/#form-block-toolbar

    After that, if you continue to receive those in your inbox, let us know.

  • justjennifer · Member ·

    Hey there, hope you don’t mind me adding to this discussion.

    I will get a Contact Form notification that has only a name and an email. There is never any message.

    I’ve also received such submissions when I offered a contact form on my site. However, these were in my dashboard’s Feedback>Form Responses> Spam folder.

    Obviously because this is a contact form submission and not a Comment, there is no WordPress spam filtering

    Any Comment or Feedback submitted through the built-in WordPress.com/Jetpack Comment or Feedback/contact form feature are scanned by Akismet.

    If your WordPress.com site’s contact form is via a plugin, you may want to query support directly or your contact form plugin author for suggestions for an anti-spam plugin.

    Hope that also helps.

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