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I have an unusual problem for a project I'm working on - I need to receive spam. Does anyone know how to get on a spammers email list?
For the curious - I'm interested to know if applying reverse dns and SPF on an email server actually blocks spam and/or ham so I've written a smtp server that will check them. I just need to be spammed.
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Spammers buy email addresses from special providers in bulk to add them to their mailing lists. If you've noted a sudden increase in the number of spam emails landing in your account, there's a high chance that your address was part of a list recently sold to one or more scammers.
One of the most convenient ways to see if your email is going to spam is to use a reliable third-party tool to check your spam score. Another good option is to look at your open rates. If your open rates are lower than 15%, it's highly likely that your emails are going straight into the spam folder.
Search for "Enter email to win" in your favorite search engine and enter your email. And who knows, besides getting spam, you might also win something :)
edit: Also make sure, that mail server which you are using is not doing any spam filtering already. The "public" address for our company gets tonnes of spam each day without filtering.
Come to think of it, you could also set up a dummy web page with the email address for spam on it and get it indexed by search engines. This is how we get spam. Although we are not specifically looking for it.
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