Why your spam filter stopped catching contact form spam
Contact form spam used to announce itself. Now it references your work and asks for fifteen minutes. What changed, what the research shows, and how to filter it without losing enquiries.
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Contact forms started receiving mail that reads like a person wrote it, because something wrote it to read that way. These are notes on what changed, why the filters everyone already had stopped catching it, and what actually helps.
Contact form spam used to announce itself. Now it references your work and asks for fifteen minutes. What changed, what the research shows, and how to filter it without losing enquiries.
Four patterns that show up in almost every machine-written sales approach, the three things a real enquiry does that none of them manage, and what to do when one lands in your form.
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Every other mailbox can learn who to trust. A contact form cannot, because a stranger writing to you for the first time is the whole point. What sender checks miss, and what still helps.
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