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My catch-all email address is getting spam emails for accounts on my self-hosted Mastodon instance.

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  • paul@oldfriends.liveP This user is from outside of this forum
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    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...

    gavi@bagel.ingG craftxbox@transfur.socialC renatolond@masto.donte.com.brR 3 Replies Last reply
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    • paul@oldfriends.liveP paul@oldfriends.live

      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...

      gavi@bagel.ingG This user is from outside of this forum
      gavi@bagel.ingG This user is from outside of this forum
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      @paul I used to get it all the time on my lemmy instance, not so much on this instance

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      • paul@oldfriends.liveP paul@oldfriends.live

        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...

        craftxbox@transfur.socialC This user is from outside of this forum
        craftxbox@transfur.socialC This user is from outside of this forum
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        @paul haha yep. ive been seeing this basically since I started my instance over here. It is very funny.

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        • paul@oldfriends.liveP paul@oldfriends.live

          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...

          renatolond@masto.donte.com.brR This user is from outside of this forum
          renatolond@masto.donte.com.brR This user is from outside of this forum
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          @paul yeah, I always saw the same over here, it seems like automated scrapers do not really make the difference

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          • craftxbox@transfur.socialC craftxbox@transfur.social

            @paul haha yep. ive been seeing this basically since I started my instance over here. It is very funny.

            paul@oldfriends.liveP This user is from outside of this forum
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            @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

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