Dnia 26.05.2025 o godz. 20:08:56 J Doe via mailop pisze: > Does anyone see deliver attempts like this ? No "ordinary" human > account would be a string of alphanumeric characters
Yes, they are. In the company where I work, email addresses - besides firstname.lastn...@example.com, have also the form employe...@example.com (and it's actually the basic form, firstname.lastname is an alias), where employeeid is a randomly-looking alphanumeric string. I have also seen real, human accounts eg. at Gmail, where the username part is a randomly looking alphanumeric string. I have myself a few of such accounts at Gmail for testing purposes. > might be a list verification service with a bug, there seems to be a > fair number of attempts. > > What could this be ? However, it's more probable that it's just a brute-force guessing of email addresses. I have seen such attempts, which were easy to recognize, as the came in sequences like "a2321@...", "a2322@...", "a2323@..." etc. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
