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Are bots actually crawling for email addresses? I've had my email public on various websites for years and have yet to receive any spam from that. On the other
by Nextgrid 5y ago
Are bots actually crawling for email addresses? I've had my email public on various websites for years and have yet to receive any spam from that. On the other hand, when that email was leaked in a data breach the spam started immediately and continues to this day.
- 3np 5y agoI guess it's a matter of chance (unless you have a spam filter that filters them from you?). It was only hours after an otherwise unused email made it into AUTHORS.md for a major project that it started receiving spam and it's been a steady stream since.
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- voakbasda 5y agoI posted a “who wants to be hired” entry here on HN last week, using a one-off email from Firefox Relay. Within two days, I started receiving spam through it. So, yes, bots definitely still trawl the web to harvest email addresses.