Website receiving spam requests

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hi everyone, recently my WordPress website has been overwhelmed by continuous spam requests to strange endpoints written in the Spanish language from crawlers which result in 404 errors i.e.

# [www.website.com/strange-spanish-name](http://www.website.com/strange-spanish-name)

https://preview.redd.it/p9th712dfpad1.png?width=2078&format=png&auto=webp&s=daff401ebbfd386c4c186d6c66de8715e91fe5a2

of course, the page on my website does not exist so a 404 error is what I’m expecting to receive but receiving thousands of them every day results in SEO ranking penalties and thousands of non-indexed pages, here is my Google Analytics data:

https://preview.redd.it/cx03wc9kfpad1.jpg?width=1303&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca8d66238801d6da91280ee57ee46f8fdabe1463

I already tried doing a fresh WordPress installation with a clean database and everything but requests begin to arrive as soon as I refresh the permalinks structure

how can I resolve this issue? what could be the cause?

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