Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups
Summary: A service called kopeechka[.]store rents out access to established email accounts at major providers, charging about .07 rubles (roughly $0.00087) per confirmation message so customers can mass-register accounts without controlling the inboxes themselves. The code behind a Russian spammer's Mastodon botnet contained an API call to Kopeechka, which the spammer used to create thousands of valid Hotmail and other addresses; Mastodon registrations jumped from about three per minute to 900 per minute before the team halted new signups.
What you should know: At less than a tenth of a cent per confirmation, the cost of creating a convincing account at your service drops to near zero, and Mastodon's experience shows the volume can arrive faster than the software was designed to handle.
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