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by Dolores12 3434 days ago
>Spam checking on content isn't possible

How does encrypted spam work? Spammers encrypt message with your public key?

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At the moment, encrypted spam doesn't exist. But only because there aren't enough people using encryption to make it worthwhile for the spammers to invest time doing it.

Theoretically, a spammer could scan the public keyservers for email addresses and public PGP keys and then send encrypted spam to all of those people. If ever a well targeted spam mailshot was sent, that would be it. But would you really want to get on the bad side of thousands of tech nerds?