Increasing Spam Calls or Scams After Using Bubble.io? 2023-2024

enrigue · 2024-09-24T16:40:46.830Z

I’ve been using Bubble.io for about a year, building multiple projects including my own business website and client sites. I’ve noticed a rise in spam phone calls, and today I even received a scam email with a crypto wallet asking for money.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Could it be connected to using the platform? How do you manage these security issues?

redvivi · 2024-09-24T19:49:46.698Z

enrigue:

Could it be connected to using the platform?

Nope.

J805 · 2024-09-24T19:58:37.450Z

I have seen an increase in scam calls, yes. I doubt that it is specific to Bubble.

Hard to prove though. If you can prove it somehow, then maybe you can report it to bubble about there being a leak.

There are just so many other places that have my phone number, no way I can tie it specifically to anyone. Emails however, now that is a different story.

chris.williamson1996 · 2024-09-24T20:08:55.464Z

There are a lot of factors that come into play here, first off the more traffic a site gets the more spam inherently. The more organic SEO traffic also increases spam.

This doesn’t really matter what platform you’re built on and it’s pretty out of bubbles control.

I will say a lot of scammers, spammers, and cold outreach call/email centers (both legit and spam) do target platforms specifically. For example you can find lists of all the sites on wix, bubble, square space, etc based on their server IP and they use these as “target” or lead lists.

I’ll give an example of a past strategy I used for an old startup of mine. It was back in 2018, we created an AI web builder that supported 62 total niches and it created 10-40 page websites in 60 seconds. The app was bubble built and hooked into our external web builder.

We would get lists of businesses we knew had awful websites for example anyone on godaddy website builder, and we would do large scale cold email campaigns and cold call campaigns. We’d programmatically generate tens of thousands of these AI websites ahead of time and give the prospect a preview of their site and a screenshot of their current site. We’d charge a $99 setup fee + $45/mo in hosting.

In short, it’s really out of bubbles hands.