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Curiously enough, so far I've only ever observed the reverse happening - spammers somehow ending up stripping off the common prefix and leaving the individual s
by iggldiggl 6y ago
Curiously enough, so far I've only ever observed the reverse happening - spammers somehow ending up stripping off the common prefix and leaving the individual suffix intact.
(Though on the other hand thankfully I'm still not getting much spam anyway and it's only a few addresses that were affected, so I only have a limited amount of data to go by.)
- usrusr 6y agoNot really surprising: in the eyes of a naive regex for extracting email addresses from a string, a+b@c.d contains a nicely email-looking substring b@c.d but a@c.d isn't contained at all. Spammer address supply chains aren't usually characterized by the highest levels of sophistication.
- account42 6y agoCould also be url decoding of the non-urlendocded email which would convert the + into a space.