You might want to checkout e-hawk.net as Franck suggested. Or checkout others 
in area. 

> On May 24, 2016, at 9:53 PM, Robert Mueller <r...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I wonder what the point is. How does the bad guy monetize it, or is it a 
>> coordinated attack against a specific victim? What other nefarious 
>> issues? Making the address useless or burying some other mail in the 
>> midst of the junk would seem to be a possibility.
>> 
>> If an attack against a specific victim, it would seem that unconfirmed 
>> marketing lists would be a more effective weapon than a bunch of random 
>> confirmation messages.
> 
> We saw this happen a while back:
> 
> https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/04/10/when-two-factor-authentication-is-not-enough/
> 
> About a month ago, our hostmas...@fastmail.fm account suddenly wound up
> subscribed to hundreds of mailing lists. All these mailing lists failed
> to use double or confirmed opt-in, so someone was simply able to enter
> the email address into a form and sign us up, no confirmation required.
> This really is poor practice, but it's still pretty common out there. A
> special shout-out goes to government and emergency response agencies in
> the USA for their non-confirmation signup on mailing lists. Thanks guys.
> 
> The upshot was that the hostmaster address was receiving significant
> noise. Rob Mueller (one of our directors) wasted (so we thought) a bunch
> of his time removing us from those lists one by one, being very careful
> to check that none of the 'opt-out' links were actually phishing
> attempts. This turns out to have been time very well spent.
> 
> -- 
> Rob Mueller
> r...@fastmail.fm
> 
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