Aug 04 2017 08:08 PM
Hi,
Today a user reported a lot of spam emails (~1000), the spam last aproximately 1 hour. Reviewing the message trace the emails came from diferent senders and ip addresses, but all were related to subscriptions for diferent pages (see below sample).
As anyone seen a similar case?
Aug 04 2017 09:46 PM
Sep 08 2017 04:59 PM
Sep 10 2017 07:25 PM
I got a handful of them. The spammers seem to be trying to use WordPress.com email subscriptions. It stopped after a day or so, I imagine that WordPress.com caught on.
The spammers are probably doing bulk imports into any service that allows email subscriptions and trying to fool people into confirming so that they are considered confirmed opt-in subscribers at that point. Mail from legit email services to COI recipients has a higher chance of landing in inboxes than the average spam campaign.