As per title I did register a domain through cloudflare and I’ve been starting getting a lot of spam email ever since. Can someone help me understand what happened? Whois is not showing my email so I don’t understand how they getting it.
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#Registered domain, getting a lot of spam email
stark violet
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As per title I did register a domain through cloudflare and I’ve been starting g...
What's the domain?
stark violet
dieman.dev
icy pulsar
dieman.dev
The only thing I notice is that your website links to your Github, which displays your email address.
It's possible some crawler found it that way.
surreal lodge
also possible this is purely coincidental
stark violet
It could be that they scan my website and connect the dots from there (the crawlers?) because I always had it on my GitHub and never had even a single spam email but now I’m getting all those SEO and build your website or build your mobile app from Indians…..
surreal lodge
Your CV blurring is also completely ineffective
the /cv.pdf is linked directly from the page and has all the info to scrape...
so I'm gonna assume that's the actual issue
- take a picture of your CV
- blur it
- make the URL for the cv be
/cv-PASSWORD.pdf - show the blurred image in the background
- once the hash matches, try loading the CV, if the password is really correct, the CV will load
stark violet
You think they scrape it even if it’s in a pdf?
I know the password is useless in terms of security I thought it would stop the crawlers somehow
stark violet
1. take a picture of your CV
2. blur it
3. make the URL for the cv be `/cv-PASSW...
Good idea
surreal lodge
You think they scrape it even if it’s in a pdf?
Yes