annie Posted June 19, 2004 Posted June 19, 2004 Lately I've gotten a few e-mails that can only be described as catch all tests. Such as one that's like this: xyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxy@domain.com I've failed all the addresses I'm getting repeated spam to, so this may be for a reason. I just can't figure out exactly why. Are they going to invent an address and then start spamming to it? Or will they ignore the domain? Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted June 19, 2004 Posted June 19, 2004 Im not sure what you mean, but i had plenty of emails sent to a "claudia @ mydomain. The problem is that there is no claudia, not that i know of anyway, so a spammer sends to any name. Quote
Deverill Posted June 20, 2004 Posted June 20, 2004 I get tons of emails to addresses that have never existed. The spammers are either trying to get through on catch-all domain setups or they are hoping there really is a touhrck@**** Quote
annie Posted June 20, 2004 Author Posted June 20, 2004 I received two more today. One with the same address, except different length of repetitions, and the other with repeating xz instead. No ads so far, only random strings of characters. I may have to start thinking about blackholing/failing all addresses I haven't set up POP3 or forwarders for. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted June 20, 2004 Posted June 20, 2004 Never had to worry about it since I've been blackholing from day one. Quote
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