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Spamtraps – fix the problem, not the symptom

ID: 1de3f195-e8ce-5636-a1ad-1b58b3ae7392

STIX ID: report--1de3f195-e8ce-5636-a1ad-1b58b3ae7392

Feed Name: The Spamhaus Project

Date Published: 2022-02-15

Date Updated: 2026-04-30

Author: The Spamhaus Team

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This guidance explains that domain registration and role-account email addresses (such as postmaster@, abuse@, admin@) are frequently harvested from WHOIS and used as live spamtraps; it advises that these addresses should almost never be on marketing mailing lists and that following best practices for data collection, hygiene, and sending frequency will minimize the risk of hitting spamtraps.

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