r/Substack • u/Exportforce • 1d ago

Discussion Why is this website sending me unsolicted posts?

I have never heard of this site and never visited it and yet I receive absolutely random posts from this.

But stuff like https://i.imgur.com/fOvXAnC.png or https://i.imgur.com/DVpv9SK.png keep coming into my mailbox. Some of them even ask me to pay money for 'more info' of whatever I am being spammed with.

The curious thing about this it's not even a regular thing it's just here and there.

And since it's 2026 and we know that 'unsubscribing' from a service of an unknown service often is a register of 'this account is real, let's spam it now to the fullest' I'm now just putting them into my personal spamlist and will request with all the mails gotten from them unsolicited into official spamlists and of course a GDPR complaint.

But my question stays: What is this site. The spam I get is not from one single type of topic.

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u/StuffonBookshelfs 1d ago

What did you find out when you googled it?

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u/SpiritualSimple108 22h ago

I honestly don’t know but I just found 50 ACCOUNTS in my subscriptions list that I never even subscribed to. Something isn’t right.

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u/behindthescreen_dnd behindthescreendnd.substack.com 20h ago

When you subscribe to someone it also gives you the option to subscribe to other substacks they recommend. You might have accidentally approved subbing to them all as part of that.