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It confirms that the address is valid, and most likely attended by a real person.
by techdmn 10y ago
It 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.