Spammers and misspellings

This isn’t something ordinary users will see much of. But come again if you’re the administrator of a busy mailserver…

Spammer lists of e-mail addresses are full of misspellings. I can only imagine where they’re coming from!

*improper line breaks? lastname-firstname.lastname@domain.tld is quite common

*an extra or missing first letter. Yep, they lose the first character of the username, or even append one or more.

*Made up usernames. Sure, that’s a given, they do dictionary attacks, after all.

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