My catch-all email address is getting spam emails for accounts on my self-hosted Mastodon instance. The spam scrappers must be confusing federation email-like user@instance account handles as email. #Mastodon #Spam #ActivityPub #Federation #MastoAdmin Anyone with a catch-all box seeing this? Interested if another instance with two or three dozen or more users on their instance is...

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/topic/3d089d32-2155-44ba-95b0-5a27e373e87a/my-catch-all-email-address-is-getting-spam-emails-for-accounts-on-my-self-hosted-mastodon-instance.RSS for NodeFri, 31 Jul 2026 17:30:47 GMTFri, 31 Jul 2026 01:51:15 GMT60@craftxbox I find they are getting a lot of the bitcoin scam... "We have access to your computers and videoed you doing xyz and if you don't send $$$ to this bitcoin we are going to..." lol

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://oldfriends.live/users/paul/statuses/117014930762228189https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://oldfriends.live/users/paul/statuses/117014930762228189Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:55:45 GMT@paul yeah, I always saw the same over here, it seems like automated scrapers do not really make the difference

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://masto.donte.com.br/users/renatolond/statuses/117014470215898328https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://masto.donte.com.br/users/renatolond/statuses/117014470215898328Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:58:38 GMT@paul haha yep. ive been seeing this basically since I started my instance over here. It is very funny.

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://transfur.social/users/craftxbox/statuses/117013519014243001https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://transfur.social/users/craftxbox/statuses/117013519014243001Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:56:44 GMT@paul I used to get it all the time on my lemmy instance, not so much on this instance

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