[chrismorgan]

How about if you monetised it by phishing, pretending to actually be gmail.com?

[mfukar]

How about punching a policeman, instead, and cut down on the time until you are transferred to a cell?

[fnordfnordfnord]

The DOJ only prosecutes a few hundred of these cases per year. You'd need to do a lot of phishing, or something special in order to get their attention, I suspect.

[gravypod]

There's nothing wrong with receiving emails.

I don't think it's actually illegal to do that. Just a bit morally off.

[detaro]

Just receiving e-mails would hardly be a way to "monetize it by phishing".

[Cpoll]

You could probably just redirect all emails to @gmail.com, and most users would be none the wiser. Then you'd be able to trivially do password resets on any accounts that were created with the typo domain.

[gravypod]

Or just sell the emails to unsavory people.

They were sent to you, you have a right to sell them (so long as you're in a one-party-consent state when it comes to recording). You're up to snuff law-wise.

Definetly a shady thing to do.

[mfukar]

What does phishing have to do with receiving emails?