I’ve created a contact form for my WordPress design portfolio the past month. I’ve been receiving those random and useless messages since then. Why does it happen? Are there additional steps for getting potential-clients e-mails?

You have several approaches on how to reduce those spamming messages (or even fully stop them, but that’s rarely happening):

[https://wpshout.com/best-wordpress-form-plugin/](https://wpshout.com/best-wordpress-form-plugin/)

[https://themeisle.com/blog/wordpress-captcha/](https://themeisle.com/blog/wordpress-captcha/)

[https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-block-contact-form-spam-in-wordpress/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-block-contact-form-spam-in-wordpress/)

I personally have the best results with CleanTalk antispam tool.