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by zingermc 2170 days ago
The beautiful part is that they may have no idea which IP address corresponds to your email until you click a unique link in the phishing email (or load a tracking pixel?).
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The scammer doesn't need to know the IP, they just send them to the root domain which automatically loads the ip of the viewer.
The website even has a utility to generate a URL that, when clicked, will log the victim's peer results while forwarding them to a harmless website:

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/