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Participant
April 12, 2024
Question

Adobe Portfolio Contact Form Sending Spam Emails

  • April 12, 2024
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Hi,

Is anyone else receiving spam emails from what appears to be legitimate contacts on LinkedIn and Indeed stating they received the information via Adobe Portfolio Contact Form?

3 replies

Participant
April 16, 2024
Not from adobe but I've gotten 3 emails from individuals with attached
contracts for security services - Guard.io & Norton. And Guard.io actually
took $15 from my bank account - I'm still working to get that money back!!

My daughter is in Cyber-security and she says that it has something to do
with AI plus if you notice so called schools are offering short term cyber
security degrees which is absurd - but i think it's all related and people
are going to have to be more conscious of security.

Sorry I couldn't help but I could empathize.
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 16, 2024

Email spam is not sent from Adobe. It comes from outside sources through whichever means is exploitable.  With over a billion websites worldwide, there are at least that many contact forms for spammers to target. 

 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 15, 2024

Sadly, there's nothing anyone can do about human spam.  But there's a simple way to thwart robots with a required text field.  See screenshot.

If the field is left blank, the form won't submit.  If the field is completed, it's from a human.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
fourscoreandseven
Known Participant
January 20, 2025

I'll see how it goes. I just want to cut down on the spammy emails. They don't even make any sense at all, what a waste of cyberspace.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 20, 2025

Spam might be coming from other sources, especially if your email is out in the wild.

It might be time to create a new email account to use with your Portfolio form, one which you don't publish online for email harvesters to find.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 12, 2024