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Spam Resource: Here’s why you need CAPTCHA
- May 16, 2022
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just shared a engaging write-up on Spam Resource:
I’m only a couple hours into my day today and so far I’ve received three different emails from three completely different senders, each inviting me to go look at the same exciting erotic webcam site. Each email message came from what I think is a legitimate sender — the latest one, from some sort of online sushi-related website, which I think is owned by some sort of sushi restaurant or delivery service, probably based in France, given the domain name used. I don’t think this online maki maker intended to advertise an adult website, but I suspect that they have open text fields in their registration forms or forward-to-a-friend forms that some spammer is exploiting to send out the gross porn links. And when I, and everybody else, report the mail as spam, the deliverability damage lands squarely on the sushi seller’s domain and IP address. Which sucks.The fact that…
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