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Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like email addresses. (infosec.pub)
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I wonder how many thousands of spam bots have tried to connect to the servers and send email using text ripped from these pages federated across numerous domains.

And they can’t just block one website. They’d have to individually block every node if they want to crawl the web for email addresses to steal. I hope it’s a real thorn in their side.

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[-] moira@femboys.bar 75 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

At my instance I did setup a email wildcard (receive emails from any address on that domain which don't already have a account) and I get a lot of phishing and scam emails, most of them are send "to" /c/meta@femboys.bar, as link to this community is linked in sidebar, but I also seen emails "send to" random usernames

screenshot showing email mailbox, about 15 phishing emails

So yeah, It is happening, i wonder how bad it is on larger instances

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The horror! I hope you have a good spam filter

[-] moira@femboys.bar 5 points 6 months ago

thankfully that is a special mailbox for spam, I sometimes like to come through the emails and see where they submit the data, and maybe submit some data on my own, plus report the issue to website owner/hosting

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