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Troy, watch out you don't open yourself up for an attack from the bad guys: They'll start sending you solicitations with ReplyTo addresses of industry honeypots
by drfuchs 4y ago
Troy, watch out you don't open yourself up for an attack from the bad guys: They'll start sending you solicitations with ReplyTo addresses of industry honeypots, and before you know it, you'll become a known spammer and your regular outgoing emails will be routed to recipient's spam folders or maybe even dropped entirely.
- Ueland 4y agoI'm not sure if you're joking or not so: He already gets attacked from the bad guys.
- quickthrower2 4y agoAnd this would be a new way to attack him
- archi42 4y agoHe's triggering it manually. And I'm pretty sure he knows what backscattering is.
- QuantumGood 4y agoI had forgotten. Here's an explanation: https://help.returnpath.com/hc/en-us/articles/220568667-What-is-backscatter-#:~:text=Backscatter%20is%20auto%2Dgenerated%20email,the%20message%20cannot%20be%20delivered https://help.returnpath.com/hc/en-us/articles/220568667-What....
- quickthrower2 4y agoI missed the manual part. If that is the case I wonder whose time is getting more wasted!
- ziddoap 4y agoHe covers this in the article. He manually moves an email to a different folder, maybe about 2 seconds worth of effort, which then triggers everything else and it is hands-off from there.
- shaky-carrousel 4y agoI found a surprisingly effective way of detecting honeypots some time ago, while working at an email marketing company.
- thombat 4y agoYou have a truly marvelous demonstration of this method, which this margin is too narrow to contain?
- quickthrower2 4y agoLet me guess: honey pots are on all the torrented/darkweb lists of emails that get shared. Regular vics will be on a subset or just one.