I wonder how many thousands of spam bots have tried to connect to the servers and send email using text ripped from these pages federated across numerous domains.

And they can’t just block one website. They’d have to individually block every node if they want to crawl the web for email addresses to steal. I hope it’s a real thorn in their side.

  • tehWrapper@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Spammers don’t care… they have a list of millions of addresses and blast through them… lots are deleted, never existed, or just garbage.

    The people that run the email server they are using to send the mail care very much, but in most cases they are not the same people.

  • moira@femboys.bar
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    4 months ago

    At my instance I did setup a email wildcard (receive emails from any address on that domain which don’t already have a account) and I get a lot of phishing and scam emails, most of them are send “to” /c/meta@femboys.bar, as link to this community is linked in sidebar, but I also seen emails “send to” random usernames

    screenshot showing email mailbox, about 15 phishing emails

    So yeah, It is happening, i wonder how bad it is on larger instances