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A few years ago I had a newsletter subscription form where one day some bot started subscribing with real email addresses. These real users started marking conf
by zigzag312 3y ago
A few years ago I had a newsletter subscription form where one day some bot started subscribing with real email addresses. These real users started marking confirmation email as spam, which in turn affected domain reputation. I don't remember anymore if it used proxies with different IPs or not, but I added CAPTCHA fix this ... CAPTCHA for newsletter subscription...
- thenickdude 3y agoSame experience here, and I'm still baffled as to why they're doing this, do you have any guesses?
- zigzag312 3y agoI have no idea
- hknmtt 3y agothey could get you on the blacklist of the bigtech and then your emails might have hard time being delivered at all
- semi 3y agoDoSing the users they are signing up would be my guess. Many sites do not even do a validation step and will immediately add any submitted email to the mailing list. Your email box is then filled with tons of emails and manually unsubscribing takes a lot of effort and still only reduces the volume of incoming emails This could just be used on its own as a way to annoy someone. Or it could be used to try to hide some legitimate email that you will receive, like if they are compromising your account somewhere that will notify you of the new login and hope you don't notice in the sea of spam.