I just got an unusual response (webmaster spam emails)

[Noah_S]

I have a question of the day on my website, and responses show up on my admin control panel. Yesterday's question was "Which theme do you prefer?"

I just updated my admin panel and saw this response

Hi,

We help businesses improve their Google rankings and visibility across AI search platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity through our combined GEO + SEO strategies.

We’d love to share a quick audit of your website (http://art-noah-s.eu) and suggest practical opportunities to increase organic traffic, leads, and AI visibility.

Best Regards,
Ankit

I'm no expert here and they didn't leave any contact info. I'm also no business, I'm a person. But I would think that the first step in being more visible to A"I" would be to disable my custom made A"I" blocker.

Yeah, that's not happening.

[Melooon]

I get about 5 of these a day  I think anyone with a website starts getting them sooner or later, its just an automated bot that spits them out.

Hey,

Came across Loom Cafe, and wanted to check if you are looking to bring in more clients for digital artworks?

If yes, worth a quick chat to see how we can help?

-Terry

Thanks,
-Terry
PersistIQ

P.S: let me know if irrelevant.

Hi Daniel — I found MelonLand through its mission of promoting websites and digital worlds as visual art, and the Surf Club webring / Navigator stood out as a really natural fit for what I’m trying to build with PromoRoam.

PromoRoam’s Founding Network is free: you add a lightweight PromoRoam widget, and your site gets a public Discover listing with a backlink plus cross-promotion across participating publisher sites. There’s no setup or participation fee. If you refer another external publisher that qualifies and stays verified through the 7-day recheck, you can also earn 1,000 Founding Credits, optionally.

Interested in taking a look?

[link removed]

If you’d rather not hear from me again, just reply “no thanks” and I’ll stop.

[TheFrugalGamer]

Yeah, I get a lot of these myself, but since I also have a blog, they're usually offers to "write a useful article on health insurance" or some stupid crap that has nothing to do with anything. They always include an offer at the end that says, "if that's not suitable, feel free to suggest a topic and I'll write on that instead." I can't block them fast enough, though sometimes I'm tempted to tell them to write a topic on what they can go do to themselves.

[Loebas]

Its general a wise idea to not use common e-mail adresses.

They always try to "contact" you via info@example.tld, or any other common addresses. That is why my e-mail is loebas@mydomain.

I never, ever had one coming my way.

And its also an good idea to somehow obfuscate e-mail addresses, but not making it too hard. Like what i do is replace the @ with an &, and instruct the user to replace the & with an @ by appending "(&=@)".
Although this wont stop the human spammer sadly.

I should also disable any contact pages you have. Although it is nice to have one, they are getting abused by spammers like crazy. An email adress should legally suffice for us, since the indieweb does not harvest any dat whatsoever.

For those with their own mailserver, blacklists should work for you to let your mailserver reject such e-mails

[Noah_S]

Not email and I don't have any contact me pages. It's through my question of the day module. I've edited it to archive user agent to see if I spot bots to block.