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Sounds like spamtraps

Sounds like spamtraps

Posted Jul 29, 2003 13:14 UTC (Tue) by dion (subscriber, #2764)
Parent article: Honeytokens

This sounds exactly like spreading an otherwise unused address in places where spammers (or their robots) will find it, to be able to identify spammers (whoever mails a spam trap address is a spammer).


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