Why someone would want to sign up to my mailing list with fake emails?
A customer asked "I don’t know if that’s a stupid question but I can’t think of any reason why someone would want to sign up to my mailing list with fake emails… Emails like 1354284@carsforcheap.biz "
The reason?
For every thousand times they do this it takes one guy who wonders what carsforcheap.biz is and visits the site.
They then spam a 10 million times on email and forums which returns 10,000 clicks for carsforcheap.biz
carsforcheap.biz is happy because they have never seen that much traffic and they pay about $100 for the service.
Customer: "I figured something like that but I’m not sure I understand - it’s not a forum, just a mailing list. Do the bots just fill out whatever forms they can find on the web regardless of what it’s for hoping to sign up to something where they get clicks?"
Me: They mostly use bots, but sadly I have heard of warehouses full of old desktops in places where people just fill in forms manually all day for a lousy pay. They also look at future opportunities and website vulnerabilities based on how the website accounts and website communications are handled.
