Freaky Spam bots..

[gaydemon]

This isnt a joke, but just freaky.

I had a lot spam on a domain - gaypornengine.com. So i decided to delete all mail accounts and bounce all emails sent to the domain.

I only setup 1 email address xyz@gaypornengine.com (example) and have never used the same and no one would really be able to guess it either or have it on record.

1 hour later, i recieve spam emails to that same email address!

How is that possible? No one knows the email address, its brand new and not a email address that makes sense. The host i use, Gossamer Threads are are a excellent host and a bunch of programmers themselves. They know what they are doing and are just as spooked as me..

[basschick]

it's possible because the spambots always email all normal configurations for email at any domain. perhaps xyz@ is one they try?

[GTP]

This isnt a joke, but just freaky.

I had a lot spam on a domain - gaypornengine.com. So i decided to delete all mail accounts and bounce all emails sent to the domain.

I only setup 1 email address xyz@gaypornengine.com (example) and have never used the same and no one would really be able to guess it either or have it on record.

1 hour later, i recieve spam emails to that same email address!

How is that possible? No one knows the email address, its brand new and not a email address that makes sense. The host i use, Gossamer Threads are are a excellent host and a bunch of programmers themselves. They know what they are doing and are just as spooked as me..

Random email addressed generator...

[gaydemon]

yes but this one i used is very random.. just 3 letters in random.

i can see bots using all "normal" types of addresses, webmaster@, support@, cs@ etc but not random letters.

They are certainly getting good at it!

[MrJD]

are you sure you don't have an automatic catch all for the domain that makes that address (since it's the only one) the catch all?

[gaydemon]

Nope, i made sure to switch that off since that caused most of the spam problems i had. Most of the spam is gone now but its just this freaky one that keeps coming through. It just doesnt make any sense at all since its a random email address, just created and never given out.