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What information does this reveal besides your email address, which they clearly already have?
by taco_emoji 10y ago
What information does this reveal besides your email address, which they clearly already have?
- techdmn 10y agoIt confirms that the address is valid, and most likely attended by a real person.
- angry-hacker 10y agoBut there are gazillion email leaks. Go scrape them all with hashed passwords. Active emails have no value.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoYou're right that they don't have value but there's still plenty of idiots out there buying and selling useless lists and while they're worthless they have a cost to us as recipients since we have to mark them as spam and delete them.
- smsm42 10y agoLeaks may have emails that are defunct, belong to dormant accounts nobody reads, throwaway accounts like mailinator.com, honeypots, etc. This confirms the account belongs to a real human actively reading the email.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoIt's a feedback signal showing success at passing automated spam filters.
- ori_b 10y agoIt reveals that their email was detected as spam by an intelligent piece of meat instead of a shard of silicon.
- yAnonymous 10y agoEmail lists with verified activity have a higher success rate and sell for more.