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I received the following email to my personal email address:

*Hi, This is Franklin Smith,

While reviewing Lemmygrad.ml, I noticed several issues such as broken links, pages returning 4XX errors, images missing ALT text, pages without meta descriptions, duplicate or missing meta tags, and overly long or unoptimized title tags of which can affect your website on Google.

Our team specializes in fixing these issues and optimizing websites for better visibility and higher rankings. If you're interested, I’d be happy to share a detailed proposal tailored to your website at an that fits your budget.

Best Regards,

Franklin Smith Web Consultant

PS1 If you are interested, then reply to us "Send your Proposal and Reference". PS2 If you are not interested, then send "Remove or No".*

What is this? I'm not the owner or a moderator here but I have posted my email address here. Do they just trawl through lemmy looking for anyone's email to send this to?

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[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was this an email you posted on the website?

They are just trying to do cold sales, automating and sending the same email to hundreds of websites. The service is not necessarily a scam (though often it's also severely overpriced and not the best quality) but yeah they automatically crawl websites looking for any email or contact form that's posted and then bombarding it with email.

Nothing to worry about as it's on the level of any other spam email, you can block the sender and of course don't click on any links or download/open any attached files.

^That is, if found an email you previously posted however. Which is still not ideal and maybe we should look into an email protection script of some kind... though I doubt they're completely fullproof. But they should prevent most email scraping. If it was an email you didn't post or kept private then something is broken higher up.

Yes it's my email address that I posted on this site that they sent this to.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

At my last job i was the google admin and managed all the addresses of former employees and whatnot. We generally just set up forwarding to an email bucket. I saw these types of emails to just about every single former employee in the company and I used to get them as well. I think this is just what you suspected, someone scraped emails from the site, and blasted this template email out.