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by donmcronald 1475 days ago
I think it’s because YouTube.com is the original sender and it’s considered ok if the receiver trusts the signers. The problem IMO is that the receiver’s mail provider (ex: ms365) doesn’t know if the receiver trusts the signers when deciding to deliver messages.

I’ve seen bad actors flood mailboxes with forwarded mail to obfuscate malicious activity. For example, they send a forged message asking for banking info updates and flood the real address that’ll get the “ok done” reply which I assume is an attempt to delay discovery of the attack.