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The terrible thing here is that: 'very common name' + 1 digit @yahoo.com generates a list almost completely of real email addresses... Spammers don't care abo
by elif 8y ago
The terrible thing here is that:
'very common name' + 1 digit @yahoo.com generates a list almost completely of real email addresses...
Spammers don't care about cleaning their lists... So he just helped the spammer do his job, involving a few hundred unrelated victims.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoThis is likely not made to harvest email addresses for spam, but rather for email:password combos.
- certifiedloud 8y agoIf all the scammer wanted was email addresses, they could have written a random yahoo email address generator on their own. They want legitimate email + password combos.
- laurentl 8y agoGiven that world + dog has the entire Yahoo DB by now, I wonder if a list of yahoo username + password still has any value on the market... Well, I can only hope so, or else the scammer will just drop all the yahoo addresses from his take rather than try to clean up the data.
- ryanlol 8y agoIf you can somehow find the yahoo DB, I will pay you $5000 in bitcoin for it :)