Crazy spike in contact form spam?

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Hey guys,

Hoping I can quickly pick some of your brains! My WP website, which admittedly has no anti-spam protection, has suddenly received over 100+ contact form submissions. Around one every few minutes.

I do get regular spam, but more between 0-5 a day, so never to this volume. Website has been going for around 2 years and have never seen anything like this.

The nature of the forms is interesting. They all claim to be from GoDaddy ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) or [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])), and all say ‘Hello, I’d like to know your price’ in like 100 different languages.

I’m planning to add captcha/honeypot, but am wondering where this is coming from. Are other people experiencing anincrease? Could something have triggered this? Is this a spam attack on GoDaddy? Is it random? No changes have been made on the website (not even new posts).

Grateful for any thoughts!

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