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.
scammers@fuck.off
Knew a guy who did screen printing in college in the engineering program, which had a large Indian population. He put this particular phrase on a shirt and wore it around.
The real way to spell it would be in the Hindi script. This is just the most common approximation in the English version of the Latin script.
You can’t get a very accurate version in the Latin script because the Hindi alphabet (devanagiri) has 4 different Ds, two different CH sounds, etc.
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
So yeah, It is happening, i wonder how bad it is on larger instances
I personally love my catch-all email domain. Anything that isn’t addressed to a specific list of addresses lands in a generic secondary inbox. So like I can have a personal inbox with the email address I give to friends, a work inbox for the address I give to clients, and an “everything else” inbox that isn’t associated with either work or personal emails.
It also allows me to easily identify which companies are selling my info. If I sign up to a Walmart membership with “Walmart@[domain]” and then start seeing a bunch of spam at that address, I know they sold my info to some ad company. I can simply burn that address; I just filter everything from that address straight into spam. And now my inbox is clean again.
Crap, that sounds amazing! Any good resources you’d suggest for getting started with doing that?
Btw, the last one can be done via plus-addresses on at least GMail and Outlook; rgb3x3+walmart@outlook.com will forward to rgb3x3@outlook.com, and you’ll see that it was sent through rgb3x3+walmart@outlook.com at the top.
I was searching for this, but how can you do a wildcard account which will just receive mails from all aliases?
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.
When I first started on lemmy during the great exodus and I was still trying to wrap my head around federation, I saw a hexbea(.net) account and straight up thought this dude was using some random email
They also monitor new website registrations and immediately spam info@newdomain
